George Michael Eller and descendants of his in America : including information on related families of Vannoy and Van Noy, McNiel, Stoker, Welker, Graybill, Colvard, Whittington, Hook and others / compiled by James W. Hook.

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GEORGE MICHAEL ELLER

and

Descendants of 1 1 is in America

Including Information on Related Families
of Vannoy and Van Noy, NlcNiel, Stoker,
Welker, Graybill, Colvard, Whittington,
Hook and others.

Compiled by
James W. Hook
80 Temple Street
New Haven 6, Conn.

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I

FOREWORD

1279770

Settlers who came to America in the 17th and 18th
centuries and settled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia and migrated thence into the Carolines and
Georgia are not as easy to follow as those who settled in
New England. Town and church records were not so generally
kept and land records linked as they were to proprietary
rights and practices delayed and often precluded the record¬
ing of small acreage leases and deeds. This a descendant
of an old southern family whose forebears were not substan¬
tial plantation owners has a job on his hands to write a
genealogy of his family. With patience, however, it can oe
done and if, as was often true, his family was deeply
religious old Bibles may have been preserved to form a sound
foundation. That was true with some of the families herein
chronicled namely the writer’s great, great grandfather John
Eller, his son Simeon and grandsons Harvey, John, James and
Jesse and the V annoy family whose Bible records go back to
the middle of the eighteenth century.

Western North Carolina, where these families lived, did
not feel the Impetus of permanent settlement until about the
second quarter of the 10th century. At that time thrifty
settlers from New Jersey, palatine Germans from Pennsylvania
and Maryland and the Scotch-I rish from Ulster came streaming
in to take up land in all parts of the state, particularly
in the huge district in the north west that came to be known
as Rowan County, These newcomers completely changed the
character of the state, starting the existing unlettered
element on its trek into isolated regions farther west as
far as Arkansas,

Most of the land in north west North Carolina at that
early date was held by large land holding syndicates in
London. One of these syndicates was headed by one Henry
McCulloh who with Arthur Dodd and others received warrants
in 1737 for 1, POO, 000 acres located along the Yadkin, Eno
and Catawba rivers. This is the section where the Ellers,
Vannoys, McNlels, Koons, Dicks and Stokers and some other
families of this genealogy settled, Mary of the early deeds
in Rowan County show Henry McCulloh as grantor.

In writing this book the author spent many hours with

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the public records in the counties where the subject families
lived, in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and Iowa.
He also had the invaluable aid of Mrs* Madeline Fletcher of
Boise, Idaho whose Eller forebear married a member of the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and left maiy
records in the church archives* A sister of this Eller fore¬
bear married a Quaker and left records in North Carolina,

Ohio and Indiana. Both of these families also left Bible
and Church records that opened many important doors.

Federal census lists and county histories also supplied
important data.

The writer also acknowledges the help given him by Mrs*
Henry Neil Vannoy of Wilbar, North Carolina, Mrs. Zelnora
VanNoy Olsen of Logan, Utah and Miss Elizabeth Riggs of Hot
Springs, Arkansas for information concerning some of the
Vannoy families and gives grateful thanks to Rev. Henry C.
Eller of Salem, Virginia for the wealth of data furnished by
him on the descendants of Jacob Eller^, Family IV and to
Wayne McVeigh Eller of Petersburg, Va. for much of the re¬
cord of the Christian Eller family on pages 1*26-^32#

The writer scarcely expects that errors will not be
found and hopes that ary that are found will be reported to
him. Dates, particularly, are susceptible of errors because
of the carelessness of those who recorded them. The writer
has encountered instances where a date for an identical event
differed in the records set down in the family Bible, in the
church, in the town clerk* s office and on the gravestone*
Dates are important, of course, but much more important is
accurate descent lines that will enable members of the family
to chart their pedigree and locate themselves in the family
tree.

The writer spent many hours checking lines of descent
and believes the ones shown are substantially correct.

Much material of a general nature passed through his hands
and he was hard pressed at times to know what to use and
what to discard. He believes, however, that he omitted
nothing of essential genealogic value.

80 Temple Street James W. Hook

New Haven 6, Connecticut
October l£, 19S7

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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L01

Foreword
Appendix
Brubaker family
Colvard family
Ellers In America

Eller George Michael, the immigrant
Peter, son of the Immigrant

Leonard, " " * "

Jacob, " " " "

George, ■ • ■ "

John, son of Peter

Catherine, dau. of Peter, m. Michael
Peter Jr., son of Peter
Jacob, « ■ •

Mary, dau, of Peter, m. George Koons
Henry, son of Peter
Simeon, son of John
Harvey, son of Simeon

John C., " " "

James, ■ " "

Jesse F.," ■ "

Christian, family of Rowan Co., N. C
George, family of Grayson Co., Va.
John, family of Monroe Co., Inri,
family of Algau Diat. in Bavaria
Curtis, letters of
Harvey, letter of
Grayblll and Or ay be a 1 families
Hook family
Kern (Kearns) family
Koons family

Long Susan, records compiled by
McNiel family 7Q - 82, 375 -

Welker family
Whittington family
Index

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55, 57
- 182, 361
1
6
17
32
53
61*
69

Stoker 88
1 21*

97 -

180 181*

130
1L1
172
177
188
252
269
277
1*26
It 28

li29

1*33

1*10

100, 131*
2Q0
69
liil
1*38
376, 392
101
187, 361
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- 1*39

- 58

- 365

- 5

- 16

- 31

- 52

- 63

- 68

- 87

- 123

- 129

- 210

- 171

- 176

- 187

- 251

- 268

- 276

- 289

- 1*32

- 1*29

- 1*3?

- 1*35

- 1*25
1*09

- 135

- 31*1*

- 72

- 171

- 1*39

- 1*07

- Ill*

- 361*

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THE ELLERS IN AMERICA

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The Eller families in Africa cans, apparently, from
the Palatinate of Germany in the first half of the 18 th
century* The Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd. Series, Vol. 17,
records the arrival of thirteen families each spelling the
namB Eller who took the Oath of Allegiance to the state and
province of Pennsylvania between 30 September 1710 and 3
November 1772. The age of only one of these ineigranta,
namely that of George Eller, who arrived 7 October 17L3f
was recorded. He was 20 years old, Conrat IUer with child¬
ren named Maria, Caterina, Elisabeth and Margaret came on
the ship "Allen" and took their Oaths of Allegiance 15
September 1729* Other families with such names as Oehler,
Eyler, Uhler, Aller, Eheller, Euler, Abler, Ohler, and
Uller came at various times between 1737 and 1766 but since
all of these names are found in present day families it is
not likely that the Ellers of America were descended from
any of then.

Of the thirteen Eller families who took the Oath of
Allegiance only four with the sane or nearly the same given
names were found in later records, Michael Eller came on
the ship "Phoenix" from Rotterdam and took his oath 30
Sept, 1 7U3 • Later a Michael Eller, on 12 April 1753, was
granted 25 acres of land in Lancaster Co,, Penma, and In
the year 1759 a Michael Eller was on the tax list of Rowan
Co,, North Carolina. A George Eller, aged 20, took the
Oath of Allegiance 7 Oct, 171a3 • Me came on the same ship
"St, Andrew" with Hans Georg Oehler, aged 1*3« Oh 1L April
1773 • George Michael Eller, who may have been the Michael
or George Eller who took their oaths in 17l»3 » bought land
called Haimond Strife in Frederick Co., Maryland and became
the forebear of the Eller family herein chronicled, (Deed
Book S, pp, 96-98, Frederick Co., Md,) A Henry Eller c«>e
on the ship "Neptune" from Rotterdam and took the Oath of
Allegiance 25 Oct, 171*6, On 6 June 1767 a Henry Eller
bought land called Hammond Strife in Frederick Co,, Mary¬
land, (Deed Book K, p, 1261i, Frederick Co,, Md,) Appar¬
ently he was a brother of George Michael Eller, A Henry
Ellers (Ellers) sold land in Kent Co., Md. in 171x5 and 171*8,
His wife was Margaret, sometimes written Margrethe, who

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apparently died soon after the 17U8 deed was executed. A
Christian Eller came on the ship MRestanration,, from Rot¬
terdam and took the Oath of Allegiance 9 Oct. 17U7. On 28
Jan. 1762 Christian Eller bought land on Crane Creek in
Rowan Co., North Carolina. (Deed Book 9, pp. 3U7/U8 , Rowan
Co., N. C.) The will of Paul Beefle of Rowan Co., dated 15
Dec. 1762, mentions Christian Eller as one of his sons-in-
law. (See page h26f also see pp. U33— U3^ - )

Other Ellers in the early North Carolina records were
Jacob Eller who bought land on the "Athin (Yadkin) or Pedee
River or branches thereof in Rowan Co., N. C.M, 31 Dec. 1761,
(Deed Book 5, pp. 36-37, Rowan Co., N. C.), and Me Ike r Eller
who bought land on Crane Creek in Rowan Co., N, C., 10 Apr.
176ii. (Deed Book 5, p. 1*63, Rowan Co., N. C.) Only Chris¬
tian and Jacob Eller of these early settlers in Rowan Co.
left wills and Jacob failed to name all of his children so
that it has been impossible to identify and classify their
descendants with certainty. Jacob Eller* s will was dated
12 April 1782 and proved 7 May of the same year. (Will
Book B, p. 1 1*5, Rowan Co.) It mentioned "my last wife
Barbary" and "my two youngest children she bore unto me."

It also mentioned "my eldest son Jacob and my daughter
Elizabeth" also "my daughter Eve" who was to be left in the
care of "Widow Evry (Eary) as she has had the care of it
since the death of its mother". Also mentioned were "all my
other children," also the executors who were to be "ny well
beloved friends Christian Eller and John Gitchey." Melcher
Eller and Matthias Scudder were witnesses. On 9 Feb. 1785
Frederick Eller, aged 18 and Elizabeth Eller, aged 12 years,
both orphan children of Jacob Eller, deceased, were bound to
Abram Eary until they reached the ages of 21 and 18 respec¬
tively. (Minute Book 1773-1786 of Rowan Co. Court, page 1*65.)
Other children apparently included a son, John, another son,
John Melcher, and a son, Christian. (Deed Book 18, p. 3l*l*,
also p. 308 Rowan Co.) It was not uncommon for German
parents to use multiple given names wherein one of those
names applied to more than one child. That the Jacob Eller
of this will was the same as the Jacob Eller who bought land
in Rowan Co., 31 Dec. 1761 is proved by Deed, Book 12, p.

280, dated 5 June 1782, by which Christian Eller, acting as
executor of Jacob* s will, sold this same land to Adam Frees.

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The will of John Gitchey of Rowan Co. dated 3 Sept.

1772 mentions daughters Eve and Elizabeth Eller, obviously
meaning daughters who had married Ellers, sons probably of
Jacob.

The will of Christian Eller was dated 30 April 1801 and
proved in the May session, I80li, of the Probate Court of
Rowan Co., N. C. (Will Book C, p. 277, Rowan Co.) It made
no mention of a wife who doubtless was deceased, but men¬
tioned children named John, who was designated executor,
George, Henry, Frederick, Susanna Eller, Mary Wattinger and
Barbara Hess. Andrew Draner and Jas. Fisher were witnesses.
Later records (Will Book H, p. 15) show that Susanna Eller,
mentioned in the will, was the wife of one John Eller whom
she married 9 Oct. 1782. George Eller quite certainly was
the George F.ller who married Christens and, sometime before
1790, settled in Grayson County, Va. Henry Eller probably
was the Henry Eller who died in Wyeth Co., Va. in 1838/39.
Frederick Eller probably was the Frederick Eller who mar¬
ried Margaret Long in Grayson Co., Va. in 1799. (See pp.
126-132) John Eller, son of Christian, died between 10
April 1820 when his will was written and the May 1820 ses¬
sion of the Probate Court of Rowan Co., when it was proved.
It gave his property to his housekeeper daring her lifetime
and after her death to John Eller, son of his sister Susanna
It mentioned his wife Margaret who apparently had deserted
him and left the residue of his estate to John Eller, son of
John Melcher Eller and to Miles Alexander Kepler. (Will
Book H, p. 15, Rowan Co., N. C.) He died, it appears, with¬
out issue.

There is a tradition stemming from a statement made by
David Eller^, (John-*, Peter^, George Michael*-) to his grand
nephew, the Reverend William H. Eller to the effect that his
(David's) grandfather was George Eller and his great grand¬
father, probably, Chrissy (Christian) Eller. This tradition
now disproved, was recorded in this writer's book, "James
Hook and Virginia Eller," published in 1925 and in "Capt.
James Hook of Oreene County, Pennsylvania," published in
1952. Certain deeds found in the Ashe County Courthouse at
Jefferson, North Carolina (Deed Book F, pp. 83 and 111 and
Deed Book M, p. 163) prove conclusively that it was Peter
Eller, not Oeorge Eller who was the grandfather of David

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Eller* The will of Christian Eller above referred to does
not mention a son Peter* It does mention a son George who,
as stated above, was probably the George Eller who married
Chris tena and was living in Rowan Co. in 1778-1781;, (Rowan
Co. Superior Court, March 1778, March 1779, March 1783, Sept.
1783 and March 1781;.), and in Grayson Co., Virginia after
about 178U. (Deed Book 1, p. Grayson Co., Va.)

George Eller of Grayson Co., Va. apparently was a brother
of Frederick Eller of Grayson Co. who married Margaret Long
in 1799, (Grayson Co., Virginia Marriages), and raised a
large family. If this was true then George also was a
brother of Henry Eller who became wealthy for his time and
died without issue in Wyeth County, Virginia in 1838 or
1839. (Will Book 9, p. 19U, Wyeth Co., Virginia.) A known
son of George and Christena Eller was George Eller Jr. who
removed to Ky. and John Eller who settled in Monroe Co.,

Ind. Another son, doubtless, was Christian Eller shown as
Christian Etter (sic), aged between 90 and 60 in the 181;0
census of Lawrence Co., Ind. and as Christian Eller (sic),
aged 70 in the i860 census of the same county, born in Va.
These two Indiana counties adjoin each other. (See pp.
h 264*32 herein.) Peter Eller^, grandfather of David Eller\
as will be shown later, was, without auestion, a son of
George Michael Eller^ whose will was probated in Frederick
County, Maryland, 28 Aug. 1778. It doubtless was the latter
who introduced the name George into the Wilkes and Ashe
Counties tradition.

Melker (Melcher) Eller of Rcwan Co., N, C., left no
will but on 8 Nov. 1782 Melcher Eller, Sr. and Melcher Jr.
are shown defending their estates against confiscation by
the State of N. C. Apparently they were thought to have
been Tories when probably they were German Baptists Breth¬
ren (Dunkards) who, because of their religious faith, re¬
fused to bear arms. They were adjudged not guilty. (Minute
Book 1773-1886 of Rowan Co. Court, p. 330.) The census of
1790 of Rowan Co., N. C. lists the family of Melcher Eller,
doubtless Melcher Eller Jr. with four males under 16 and two
females which included the female head of the family. It
also lists the family of John Eller, son of Melcher with
two females including the female head of the family. A
Henry Eller, the inventory of whose estate was filed Feb.

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1806 may have been a son of Melcher or Jacob.

Of the eleven Eller families shown in the Federal
Census of Rowan County, North Carolina in 1790, eight of
the* can be identified as sons either of Jacob, Christian
or Melcher. The other three were named Leonard, John and
George, That Leonard was a son of George Michael Eller who
died and left a will in Frederick County, Maryland that was
probated 29 Aug. 1778 is substantially proved. That John
and George were Leonard Eller’s brothers appears reasonably
certain to this writer. Another brother of Leonard was
Peter Eller, (Family II, page 17 herein) who lived first In
that part of Rowan Co. that in 18 22 became Davidson and
later in that part of Rowan Co. that, in 1777, became Wilkes
and in 1799 Ashe Co,, N. C. The evidence is strong that
Jacob Eller who settled in Bote tort Co., Va. about 1790 was
still another brother. Peter Eller* is listed in the 1790
census (original list) of Wilkes Co., N* C. and is the only
person of the Eller name outside of Rowan Co., N. C. who is
shown in the 1790 census of North Carolina. It is to the
George Michael Eller* branch of the family that this
genealoigr particularly applies. His will, as will be seen
later, named sons, Peter?, the eldest, Elitabeth?, Leonard?,
Jacob?, George?, John?, Eve?, Catherine* and Marla?, the
latter six being called "my six youngest children." (See
Eller Family I, pp. 6-16 herein.)

NOTE: See p. 1*33 for a suggestion as to the family in
Germary from whom the Eller families of this genealogy

descended.

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GEORGE MICHAEL ELLER, THE IMMIGRANT

FAMILY I

GEORGE MICHAEL ELLER died in Frederick County, Mary¬
land before 25 August 1778 when his will, written in the
German language and translated and put on record by Thomas
Schley, was proved in the Frederick County court# The fact
that his will wa3 written in German indicates that he was
bom in Germany* No George Michael Eller is shown in any
list of foreigners who took the Oath of Allegiance to the
State of Pennsylvania between 1727 and 1775 nor in any other
list of immigrants that this writer has seen# He may or may
not have been the Michael Eller who came on the ship
” Phoenix" and took his oath 30 Sept. 17^3, or he may have
been the George Eller, aged 20, who came on the ship MSt.
Andrew” with Hans Georg Oehler, aged U3, both of whom took
their oaths 7 Oct. 17U3* Or he may have come to America as
a lad before 1727 before importee lists were kept and, of
course, he may have been one of those immigrants whose name
was lost in the mutilation of the 1727-1775 lists that oc¬
curred before they were gathered together and published by
the State of Pennsylvania in Vol# 17 of the second series
of Pennsylvania Archives# Finally, he may not have landed
in Pennsylvania at all but in Maryland which state kept no
record of individual German importee s.

William Eller, 1819-139U, son of John Eller, grandson
of Leonard Eller and great grandson of George Michael Eller
wrote the following in a family Bible, published in 1880,
and now owned by Mrs. Paul W. Harrop, 1613 W. Riverside
Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

’’William Eller was Bom July 26, A.D. 1819 John
Eller was mi father he was Bom in Ashe County, North
Carolina his father was Lenard Eller he was Bom in at
fort (ford, fork) littors North Carolina his father
came from Bebon (Baden) Co. germany in the year 1690.”

All parts of this Bible record are proved by public re¬
cords except the birth place of Lenard (Leonard) Eller, the
place (Bebon Co., Germany) where Lenard Ts father was bom
and the date (1690) that he came to this country* Fort

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(ford, fork) Littors, North Carolina and Bebon Co., Germany
have not Deen located at this writing by this writer and
1690 as the arrival date of the father of Lenard (Leonard)
Eller, bom in 173* is not tenable. The date 1690 would not
have oeen unreasonable as the birth year of Leonard Eller’s
father and 1730 to 171*5 ae the time of his arrival in
America. (See po. 1*33-Ji3^ herein.)

(Not# by J.W.H. - Peter Eller, elder brother of Leon¬
ard Eller, lived on land described in the land grant as
"beginning at a spruce pin# on the Upper Ford of Rones
Creek." Trading Ford on the Yadkin River was an #arly
landmark in Rowan Co. It was located about 6 miles
north east of the town of Salisbury, probably where the
present road to Lexington crosses the Yadkin River near
the fork of th# two branches of the river. It is men¬
tioned as early as 1701 and doubtless was on the primi¬
tive mad called the "Trading Path" down which many of
the settlers travelled on their way to N.C. from Pa.
and Md. Littors Fort (Ford, Fork) of above Bible re¬
cord may be the same. At ary rate, the river cross¬
ing of the road that runs from Salisbury to Lexington
is very near the plac# where all th# Ellers first set¬
tled in N. C.)

The wife of Oeorge Michael Eller as given in his will
was Anna Maria, but the way the will reads it is apparent
that she was not his first wife and very likely not th#
mother of any of the children named in same. The will bora
no date but was proved by its witnesses 25 Aug. 1778. This
writer suspects that it was written several years before his
death. It reads as follows, (Will Book O.M., No. 1, p. 76,
Frederick Co., Md.)t

"IN THE NAME OF 00!) AMEN.

I Oeorge Michael Eller of Frederick County in the prov¬
ince of Maryland living, am for this time 8 lk and not
right well but in my sound memory thanks be given unto
Ood therefore seeing my nullity, ordain herein my Last
Will and Testament in full love. I recommend my soul
into the hands of Ood that gave it and my body to the
earth, to be buried in a Christian like manner at the
discretion of my Executors, my Executors shall in the

first place pay out of my Estate all my just debts,
and the overplus vh at the Lord gave me in this world I
ordain as followith, my beloved wife, Anna Maria I give
fifty pounds lawful Money, the small red cow with a
white head, thirty bushels of wheat, her bed and her
chest she bought (brought) to me, also the small and
large Iron Potts, a half dozn. peuter plates, one
peuter bason, a dozn. peuter spoons, and a small melt
pan, three iron kettles, a small washer tu£ a water
tu£ and the chum, her spinnin wheel, her lamp her
Bible her Psal mody, one quart tin mog and a pint do,
one quart bottle, and every year fifteen pounds as
long as they can live together also her clothing out
of ry Estate they can agree together, the aforesaid
fifteen pounds to be paid to her in the first year
only out of ny whole estate, and if they can agree to
live longer together, then the six youngest children
shall pay her the same by themselves out of ny good
consideration I caused to be right and is my last Will
and Testament that ny oldest son Peter Eller, shall
have the sum of ninety seven pounds lawful money, and
ny son Leonard Eller shall have the sum of eighty two
pounds and my daughter Elizabeth shall likewise have
eighty two pounds lawful money; and these said three
children shall have that money three years after ny
decease then ny two Executors, namely Henry Eller and
Martin Gerber, shall be impowered to sell the Place,
waggon and horses, all the creatures and moveables,
and shall pay to my beloved wife her part (and) of the
aforesaid three children their part of the same; and
the overplus shall be divided by ny Executors among ny
six youngest children namely, Jacob Eller, George Eller
John Eller, Eve Eller, Cathrine Eller and Maria Eller;
further Jacob Eller shall have the Bible and to pay to
George ten shillings, also shall Jacob have the young
colt, if it mare bring the same Inky, this is is
George Michael Eller his x mark and Seal X (SEAL)”

Certified, acknowleded and confirmed No other

This is John Bergers mark X Signature

Henry Schmaus (Smous)

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"John Bergers, Henry S mouse the above witnesses
were sworn Frederick County, 25th August 1779.

"Then cane the above named Thomas Schley and made
oath on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that the
within and above writing is a Just and true Transla¬
tion to the best of his knowledge of the original Will
of the above named George Michael Eller, which is writ¬
ten in the German language and that he hath not know¬
ingly or intentionally translated any natter of sub¬
stance contrary to the true meaning of said Will.

Certified by George Murdock, Regr."

The phrases in the above will pertaining to his wife
and the things "she brought to me" and the legacies to her
that were made contingent on his six youngest children and
her being able "to live longer together," indicates that
she was not their mother. The name of his first wife was
not found. The Evangelical Lutheran Church records of
Frederick County, Maryland, records the baptism, on 8 Nov.
1756, of Marie Magdalena Allsr, daughter of Michael Aller
and his wife Salome. (Evangelical Lutheran Church Records ,
p. UO, Maryland Hist. Soc.) This, doubtless, was another
family because in the same year (1756) Carl Aller baptised
a daughter Anna Barbara and in 1775 one Michael Aller was
recorded as owing money to Mr. Hass, the same probably be¬
ing for the church, (pp. L2 and li9 Ibid.)

If all facts were known they might show that George
Michael Eller was married three times and that his first son
Peter was a child by his first wife and all others by his
second. Peter was a grown man wl th a wife and child as
early as the late seventeen sixties. His brother, Leonard,
was bom 20 March 175h. Peter Eller was called "ry eldest
son" in the George Michael Eller will and the latter's child¬
ren, Jacob, Oeorge, John, Eve, Catherine and Maria, called
"*y six youngest children," were given the residue of the
estate in equal shares. The son, Peter, was given 97 pounds
and the son, Leonard, and daughter, Elizabeth, were given
82 pounds apiece. All of this adds up to the fact that
Peter, Leonard and Elizabeth were his eldest children and
that Peter probably was some years older than the other two,
and, maybe, their half brother.

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It would be sheer guesswork to give a name to George
Michael EllerTs first wife. His son, Peter, whose wife was
Elizabeth, named his first daughter, Catherine, doubtless
in honor of his wife^ mother whose name was Catherine.

Miss Addie J. Stoker of Lovelock, Nevada and some other
descendants of Peter and Elizabeth Eller say that this
daughter^ full name was Catherine Martha which, if true,
could mean that Martha was in honor of her father1 s mother,
the child thus bearing the name of her two grandmothers.

No sound evidence, however, has been found to support this
conjecture.

Tradition in the Eller families who descended from
Peter and Elizabeth Eller of Wilkes and Ashe Counties, N.C.
is that these Eller ancestors came from the Palatinate of
Germany as German Baptist Brethren or Tunkers, some times
called Dunkards. The North Carolina branch impressed by the
similarity of their faith with that of the American Baptists
whose church, in the late 18 th century, was growing so rap¬
idly in western North Carolina, flocked to that church in
great numbers. By the end of the 19th century it would be
difficult to find any Ellers in Wilkes and Ashe counties in
North Carolina who were not Baptists. The same may also be
said for their descendants in Iowa and Nebraska. The Eller
family of Roanoke Co., Virginia, descendants, this writer
believes, of George Michael Eller, are members of the
Church of the Brethren some of them presently serving as
pastors* (See Family IV herein, page 53.)

The German Baptist Brethren Church was organized by
Alexander Mack and his wife and six others in Schwarzenau,
Germany in 1708. It was a thoroughly democratic movement
holding against infant baptism or other exercise of force
to gain members. It opposed state religions, the taking of
oaths and joined the Quakers of England and elsewhere in
opposing war or individual participation in war. This latter
belief is the reason that present day descendants so often
search in vain for a Revolutionary War ancestor.

The new church along with members of other sects who
refused to join one of the three state religions, namely the
Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed (Calvin¬
ists), that were given exclusive religious liberty by the
treaty of Westphalia in 16U8 which ended the 30 years1 war,

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were notoriously persecuted and driven from place to place.
In 1719 Peter Becker, one of the founder members of the
German Baptist Brethren Church In Schwarxenau brought his
church In Krefelt, Germany to Germantown, Pennsylvania. He
was followed In 1729 by Alexander Mack who found going con¬
gregations at ^lssahlcton near Germantown, at Coventry In
Chester Co. and at Conestoga some fifteen miles south of
Lancaster, all in Pennsylvania. From these starting points
the church spread to Conowego in York County and thence to
Maryland including Pipe Creek in 1798 and Beaver Bam in
1762/3. The Pipe Creek Church, organised about 1758, was
located, I believe, at Union Bridge in Carrol Co. about two
miles northeast of the Eller farms. Beaver Da* Church,
organized about 1762 was located, I believe, on Beaver Dam
Creek and was still nearer to the Eller farms. The Annual
Meeting of all Brethren Congregations in Pennsylvania, Mary¬
land and Virginia were held at Pipe Creek in 1776, 1783,
1707, 1799, 180b, 18 lb, 1830 and 1867. (See "History of the
German Baptist Brethren" by Martin Grove Brumbaugh, 1890 and
"History of the Church of the Brethren in Maryland" by J.
Maurice Henry, 1936.) The exceedingly spares records of the
Conestoga Church show the following adult baptisms of new
members which are pertinent to this genealofgr. First, on
2b April 17b8, Adam Dick and his wife, Odllga. Second, on
29 March 1792, Daniel Seller. Third , on 26 Aug. 1793*

George Eder and wife, her name not given. It is possible
that George Eder was the same as George Michael Eller.
Fourth, on lb April 17*3i, Henry Eler (sic) and wife, her
name not given (Ibid). Very likely he was the Henry Eller
who with George Michael Eller later acquired land called
Hammond Strife on the waters of Little Pipe Creek in Freder¬
ick Co., Md. The records of the Conestoga Church from the
Sept. 1799 to the year 1763 have not been found. (Ibid)

One of the churches that served the Pipe Creek and
Beaver Dam Brethren may have been on a b acre tract of land
described as a part of "Browns Delight," that, on 8 Oct.
1765, was deeded to the "Dutch Congregation of Pipe Creek"
by John Grider* (Garber). This land was located on the
Clemson branch of Sam's Creek in Frederick Co. about two
and a half miles southeast of the farms of George Michael
and Henry Eller. If these near by churches had made records

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that were now extant they, doubtless, would show Georg
Michael Eller and Henry Eller as members. Neither is shown
in the records of the Evangelical Lutheran or the German
Reformed Churches of Frederick Co., Md. except for the mar¬
riage of Elizabeth, daughter of George Michael Eller who is
recorded in the Evangelical Lutheran Church as having mar¬
ried Henrlch Reb, 10 June 1777. Very probably Reb was a
member of the church.

Both the Evangelical Lutheran and the German Reformed
Churches were organized early in Frederick County. Simon
Kern, Michael Hoffner, Philip Kuntz and others, Mwho built
the church in the mountains," declared their loyalty and
faith on 31 Oct. 17^6 "when the Swedish Pastor, Mr. Nasman,
was here." (Evangelical Lutheran Church Records, page li90
at Md, Hist. Soc., Baltimore.) Apparently this was not the
Frederick Town Church because that church was not built
until 1761. (Frederick Co. Deed Books B, p. 57U and F, pp.
535-536. ) The Reformed German Church was built about 17U7-
1|8. Thomas Schley (b. 1712; d. 1789) who brought a party
of Germans to Maryland about 17UO-l;5 and served as their
teacher, interpreter and friend, was a member of this church
and its organist for many years. He was an educated man and
translated the wills of deceased Germans for the county re¬
cords. One of the wills which he translated was that of
George Michael Eller shown above.

The Estate of George Michael Eller was settled by the
executors Henry Eller and Michael Gerber, 26 Oct. 1779. It
was valued at 956 pounds, 15 shillings and 5 pence, a sub¬
stantial sum for those early times. The widow received 50
pounds, the son, Peter Eller, 97 pounds, the son, Leonard
and daughter, Elizabeth Reb, 82 pounds each and "the young¬
est children, namely Jacob, George, John, Eve, Catherine and
Maria" the balance, amounting to 6Ii5 pounds, 15 shillings
and 5 pence, in equal portions.

George Michael Eller is first found in the records, Ik
April 1773, when he was deeded 100 acres of land in Freder¬
ick Co., Md. by Edward Gaither and his wife Eleanor. (Deed
Book S, pp. 96-98, Frederick Co., Md. ) When he appeared,

17 Aug. 1773, to pay his alienation fine his name was given
as George Eller, the Michael being omitted. This land was
a part of a tract called Hammond^ Strife. Hammond Strife,

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containing 1230 acres, was patented to John Hamr.ond 10 Aug.
1753 and was located about 10 miles north east of Frederick
Town and k1ust east of the town of Johnsvllle in the District
of Johnsvllle in Frederick County. The land draine into
Little Pipe Creek that forms part of the border between
Frederick and Carrol Counties in Maryland.

Henry Eller, brother apparently of George Michael, also
owned 90 acres of land called a part of Hajmond Strife that
he purchased, 6 June 1767, from Jacob Flora. Thomas and
Elisabeth Wood witnessed the deed. (Deed Book K, p. 126L,
Fred. Co., Md.) Henry Eller and Elisabeth, his wife, sold
this land, Hi June 1771, (Deed Book 0, p. 3, Fred. Co., Md.),
and on 13 June 1772 bought 110 acres of land near by on
Beaver Dam Branch, a draught of Little Pipe Creek. (Deed
Book P, p. 128, Fred. Co., Md.) Henry Eller and his wife,
Elisabeth, sold this 110 acre farm 16 May 1785. (Deed Book
WR6, p. L, Fred. Co., Md.) He died in 1788, (Admin. Acct.
Washington Co., Md.) leaving children, according to a deed,
dated li Dec. 1793 in Washington Co., Md. , which show his
children and in sore cases their spouses to have been named
(1) Joseph Eller, whose age in the 1000 census of Washington
Co., Md. was over Ji5 and whose family consisted of a wife,
aged over 1j5, three daughters, aged between 16-26, two
daughters, aged between 10 and 16 and three sons, aged under
10. (2) Elisabeth Eller, who m. Christian Herter (Hester) |

(3) Rebecca Eller, who m. Christian Gerber; (M Henry Eller
Jr. and his wife Fronlca. He removed to Montgomery Co.,

Ohio where he died in 1832 leaving a wife Fronlca and child¬
ren Daniel, b. 20 March 1785; d. 7 June 1*63; m. Elisabeth
Siler, b. ij Oct. 178lij d. 16 March 1872 (gravestones), a
daughter Mary, b. 29 Jan. 1708; d. 1L Aug. 1876 (gravestone)
who married Jacob Albaugh, and probably Abraham and Joseph
and other children; (5) Jacob Eller and his wife Margareth,
doubtless the Jacob Eller who m. , Uti Oct. 1789, Mary *111-
Jard; (6) Esther Eller who probably was the Esther Eller
who m., 18 Mch. 179L, George Bechtel; (7) Daniel Eller and
his wife Hannah; (8) Sarah Eller; (9) Magdalene Eller who
m. Jacob Gerber; (10) Marla Eller, probably the Marla Eller
who m. Christian Schaub, 31 Aug. 1803; (11) Salome Eller who
m. Henry Schults; (13) Peter Eller a minor not of age in
1795 tait who signed an heirship release 5 April 1000 indie at-

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ing that he had then reached his majority* (Washington Co.,
Md. Deeds, Book H, pp. 657 and 860; Book J, p. 396 and Book

M, p. 1*62.)

According to a letter of Mary Hoss Headman of Knoxville,
Tenn. , published in the Maryland Historical Magazine in
19ii5, (Vol. 50, p. 250), Henry Eller Sr. married Elizabeth
Bigler (Beigler), dau. of Mark and Catherine Bigler. Mark
Biglers will, proved in Frederick Co. in 1787, mentions a
wife Catherine, (sometimes written Marie Catherine), and
children, (1) Catherine Bigler, who m. Henry Miller; (2)
Elizabeth Bigler, who m. Henry Eller (Etter); (3) Phoebe
Bigler, who m. Lazarus Fonderburgh; (U) Salome Bigler, who
m. Samuel Tomme; (5) Mark Bigler Jr., who m* Catherine Lease,
dau. of Philip Lease who d. in Frederick Co., Md. about 1769;
(6) Israel Bigler; (7) Daughter Bigler, who m. Mr. Randabush;
(8) Hester Bigler; (9) Juliana Bigler; (10) Barbara Bigler*
(Will Book 0M, No. 2, p. 238, Frederick Co., Md.)

George Michael Eller, whose will was written in the
German language, doubtless could not speak English and,
therefore, could have been recorded in the public records
either as George or Michael. He could have been the Michael
Eller who was granted 25 acres of land in Lancaster Co.,
Pennsylvania, 12 April 1753* (Penn. Archives) From here he
could have removed first to Frederick County, Maryland and
from there to Rowan County, North Carolina with Jacob,
Christian and Melchoir Eller who settled there aDout 1760.

A Michael Eller is found on the tax list of Rowan County,

N. C. in 1759. (The Rowan Story by James S. Brawley, p.

352.) From Rowan County he could have moved back to Fred¬
erick Co., Md. where, as we have seen, he purchased land
near Little Pipe Creek, 1U April 1773* If these conjectures
could be proved to be correct they might corroborate that
portion of the Bible record of William Eller (supra) which
said that his grandfather, Leonard Eller, was born at fort
(ford, fork) littors, North Carolina.

In all events George Michael Eller must have been a
good provider and a thrifty settler. Not many first genera¬
tion settlers in this country died leaving an estate of 950
pounds as he did. One could easily believe that he brought
a goodly sum with him from his native land and that he man¬
aged to hang on to it and, perhaps, add to it during his

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lifetime. No one of his descendants can doubt that he left

them a good and worthy heritage .

The children of George Michael Eller named in his will

were, order of birth in all cases not certain.

(1) Peter Eller , eldest son, b., say about 17L6; d. 1799
in Ashe Co., N. C., m. , say about 1766, Eliiabeth
Dick, dau. of Conrad and Katherine ~>ick of Frederick
Co., Maryland. (See Family II, page 17 herein. )

(?) Elisabeth Eller^, m. 10 June 1777, Henrich Reb, son of
Caspar Peb of Bucks Co., Penr.a. Her marriage was
recorded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Frederick City, Maryland which gave the residence of
both as Pelff (Pipe) Creek and called her George
Michael Eller's daughter. Witnesses were Jacob,
George and Joseph Eller, Michael and Barbara Krault,
Frederick Reu ten bach, Conrad Spohn, Michael Ungerer
and Marie Schmausln. She was shown to ue a married
daughter in her father's estate settlement but her
married name was not legible. (Minute Book and
Proceedings of the Orphans Court, 1777-178L, Freder¬
ick Co., Md.) Jacob and George Eller who witnessed
her marriage doubtless were her brothers. Joseph
Eller probably was her cousin, son doubtless of
Henry Eller*

(3) Leonard Eller^, b. 20 March 1751; d., in Hamilton Co.,
Indiana in 1639 or 19L0. His wife was Elisabeth
whose sum ame was not found. (See Family III page
32 herein.)

(L) Jacob Eller , probably was the Jacob Eller who d.,
1630, in Bote tort Co., Virginia. His wife was
Magdalena whose surname was not found. (See Family
17, page 5^ herein.)

(5) George Eller . He probably was the George Eller who

d. about 1639 in Davidson Co., North Carolina. His
wife apparently was Susannah whose surname was not
found. She is listed in the I6J4O Federal Census of
Davidson Co. as aged between 60 and 70 and living
alone. She died probably in lRLO or 16L1. (See
Family V, page 6ii herein.)

(6) John Eller^. No identifiable record of him was found.

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He may have been one of the John Ellers found in the
early census records of Rowan Co., N. C. This
writer fs guess is that he was the John Eller who
married Catherine Fight (Fort) 10 Aug. 178S. (Rowan
Co. Marriages) She was a daughter of Peter Fight.
(Deed Book 19, p. 876, Rowan Co., N. C.) One son of
theirs probably was Peter Eller^, b. in Rowan Co. in
1788, who served during the War of 1812 as a private
in Capt. W. L. Dufphey*s Company of the 3rd Regiment
of U. S. Riflemen. (His Hon. Discharge Papers,
Archives Bldg., Wash., D. C.) For these services he
was granted 160 acres of Bounty Land in Missouri
which he sold to Henry Fight, his brother-in-law
probably, 10 Dec. 1819. (Deed Book 26, p. 112,

Rowan Co.) Peter Eller^, probably, m., 17 April
1809, Susannah Lemly and removed to Montgomery Co.,
Va. and there shown in the 1820 census of that
county, aged between 26 and US with wife of same
age and with six male and one female children under
16. Other sons of John Eller^ may have been David
Eller3 who had a licence dated 31 June 1815 to marry
Sarah Leonard, a dau. of Valentine Leonard of David¬
son County, N. C. and George Eller^ who had a
licence dated 9 Sept. I8lli to marry Caty (Catherine)
Eller. (Rcwan Co., N. C. Marriages.)

(7) Eve Eller^. No further record found.

(8) Catherine Eller^. She may have been the Catherine

Eller who married, 27 May 1788, Peter Lehman with
Adam and Martha Lehman serving as witnesses.
(Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick Co., Md.)

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(9) Maria Eller . No further record found.

PETER ELL£R

Eldest son of George Michael Eller, Family I, p. 6

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FAMILY II

PETER Ei-LER2, (George Michael Eller1) waa born, say
about 17L6 and died, in that part of Wilkes County, N. C*
that in 1799 became Ashe County, before 29 July 1799 on
which date the acfainistration of his estate was given to
Betsey and John Eller. He married, say ahcut 1767, proba¬
bly in Frederick County, Maryland, Elisabeth Dick, daughter
of Conrad and Catherine Dick who were living in Frederick
Co. as early as 19 Aug. 1799 when all of that tract of
"land called Mon Hlme” lying on a small creek leading into
Beaver Dam Branch in Frederick Co., Md. containing 100 acres,
was surveyed and patented to Conrad Dick. ( B.C» and O.S.

Mo. 9, folio 127, Hall of Records, Arrapolls, Md.) Beaver
Dam Branch is a branch of Little Pipe Creek. Conrad and
Catherine ^lck, she relinquishing her dower right, sold
this land to Vllllan Aldridge on 23 March 1761s after which
they disappear from the Frederick Co. records. He was call¬
ed a weaver in the deed. (Book J, pp. 2Ua, ?Ii5, Frederick
Co. Deeds.) Mon Hlme, apparently, was his own name for
this land and may have been named for the township of Man-
helm in Lancaster Co., Pa. There is also a village of Mon¬
helm in Bavaria located about 80 miles south of Mum Derg.

On 20 f*arch 1758 Marie Catherine Dick, daughter of Conrad
Dick and his wife Anna Catherine Dick, was christened in
the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Maryland.

Conrod Dick (sic) purchased 200 acres of land from
Martin Sheets in Rowan Co., N. C. in 1771s. The land was
located on Hodge's Fork, a branch of the Uwaree River, now
in Davidaon or Randolph Co. He sold this land to Adam
Bowers 20 Dec. 1785. (Book 10, p. 388, Rowan Co. Deeds.)
Coon rod Dick (sic), doubtless the same, was granted 70
acres of land on Rones Creek in Wilkes Co., N. C. 20 Nov.
1792. A record on film at the Genealogical Society of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake
City (FMCW 9B Und Furies, 1770-17*1 and 17*3-17*9, Wllkee
Co., N.C. ^ shows that this land was entered 20 Feb. 1779
but the order for survey, dated 10 March 17*7, in the Secy,
of ftate's office in Raleigh, N. C., shows that Coon rod

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Dick’s name had been written in over another name indicating
that the original entry may have been made for someone else
who later assigned his right to Coonrod (Conrad) Dick. The
land was surveyed for Conrod Dick (sic), 13 April 1795, and
found to contain only 70 acres. Jn° Eller and Mich^- Stuckers
(Stoker) signed the survey as chain carriers. (Grant #1258,
Secretary of State Office, Raleigh, N. C.) In view of the
fact that Peter Eller, son-in-law of Conrad Dick, entered
land on Rones Creek about a year later (2ii July 1780) it is
reasonable to suppose that the two settled in North Carolina
at the same time. Whether they came directly from Frederick
County, Md. or not is not clear but the fact that Conrad
Dick sold his land in Frederick County, Md. in March 176ii
and didn’t show up in N. C. until ten years later suggests
that he may have lived in some intermediate place, say
Virginia, meantime, Conrad Dick sold his 70 acres to Peter
Eller, 3 March 1797. (Deed Book D, p. 165, Wilkes Co., N.C.)

A John Dick, son perhaps of Conrad Dick, was granted
86^ acres on the south fork of New River in ^she Co., on
27 June 1797. John Dick Jr. and Jesse Ray attested the
survey. John Dick and John Dick Jr. doubtless were father
and son. John Dick was also granted liOO acres of land on
the south fork of New River on 13 June 1798. This grant
was accompanied by a document saying that it was issued to
correct errors in an earlier grant not identified but proba¬
bly the one dated 27 Dec. 1797 for iiOO acres that, on 3
Jan. 1783, had been ordered to be surveyed probably for
Robert Nall and actually surveyed for John Dick 22 July
1787. John Nall and Alexander Johnson attested the survey.
On 1 December 1798, John Dick was granted an additional 100
acres on the south fork of New River. This land was first
ordered to be surveyed for William Nall on 11 Nov. 1779 and
actually surveyed for Robert Nall 2h June 179li. How it came
to be granted later to John Dick is not clear but very like¬
ly it was by assignment. (Grants IL18I1, 17U9, 15U7 and lli71,
Secretary of State’s Office, Raleigh, N. C.) That John
Dick and his wife Mary once lived in Rowan Co. is indicated
by a deed of that county dated 3 Sept. 1795 wherein John
Dick, of Wilkes Co., sold to Jacob Heifer of Rowan Co., 200
acres of land including improvements located on Bear Creek
in Rowan Co. He signed the deed ” Johannes Dick" in German

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script In his own hand. His wife Ha nr signed with a mark.
(Book lb, p. 52 3, Rowan Co. Deeds.)

Land gran ts In North Carolina originated with an entry
application which was filed In the county where the land
was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This
was followed, sonatinas soon and soewtlmes years later by
an order fron the land office for the tract to oe surveyed.
Sometimes soon and son* times years later the survey was
nade and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State
in Raleigh. Than cane the grant which nay have been issued
reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several
years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey
Itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office
at Raleigh. The two grants to Peter Eller totalling 350
acres on Rones Creek in ‘Wilkes County (now Ashe) Mentioned
above has an entry date of 13 March 1780 in the Wilkes Co.,
North Carolina records. (Land Entries 1778-1701, 1783-179^
Wilkes Co. , N. C. on f 11m at the Jenealoglcal Society of the
church of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City.) This was
followed by a warrant of survey, dated 2h July 1780. The
survey was fade 20 March 1787 and the grant Issued 18 Pay
1789. Apparently Peter Eller Merely retained his entry
privilege and did not ask for a survey and grant until some
years later, probably about the tlw he removed there f pom
his fan* on Reedy Creek in Rowan (now Davidson County) North
Carolina. The skm situation also applied to the Conrad
Dick grant of 150 acres in Rones Creek. The Wilkes County
entry date is 20 February 1779 whereas ths order to survey
was Issued 10 March 1787, the grant 28 Nov. 1792 and
strangely enough ths survey was not Made until 13 April
179$. Very likely it was a re-survey because it showed
that Instead of containing 150 acres the tract contained
only 70 acres, ths a a me acreage that Conrad Dick sold to
Peter Eller, 3 March 1797 (supra). Quite often there would
be an acreage discrepancy between entry and survey. The
reason for this was that the entries were estimates and the
surveys actual. Instances are also found where a person
would Make an entry net follow through, then at a later
date Make a new entry on the sane land. The Wilkes County,
North Carolina entries Mentioned above were found on mlcro-
fi 1m at the Denealoglcal Society of the Church of Letter-

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day Saints at Salt Lake City. (FNCW 5B, Land Entries 1778-
1781, 1783-179^, Wilkes Co., N. C.) The writer is indebted
to Honorable Thad Eure, Secretary of State of North Carolina
for his letter of 2 December 1955 which explains early land
grant procedure in North Carolina.

The date of birth of Elizabeth Dick, wife of Peter
Eller, is not known. Her eldest son John Eller was bom
about 1767-1769 and her youngest son George after 1790.

This would indicate that she was bom not later than about
17U9 or 1790. The lSOO census of Ashe Co., N. C. states
her age as over 1*5. She probably was alive in 1830 and, ac¬
cording to the Federal Census of Ashe County of that year,
living with her son Jacob, her age being shown as between
70 and 80. The fact that her daughter did not have her¬
self baptized for her mother as well as her father at
Nauvoo, Ill. in 181*1 as shown below, indicates either that
she was then living or, as is more likely, that she had
embraced the Mormon faith and was baptized in her own life¬
time •

Proof of many facts concerning Peter Eller and his
family was gleaned from the microfilm records of the Index
to Nauvoo (Illinois) Baptisms for the Dead of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) that are in the
custody of the Genealogical Society of the Church at Salt
Lake City. They show the following:

(1) That Catherine Stoker, wife of Michael Stoker and

daughter of Peter Eller had herself baptized in 181*1
for

(A) Her deceased grandfather, Kinrod (Conrad)

Dick. (Book A, p. 37)

(B) Her deceased grandmother, Catherine Dick.

(Book A, p. 37)

(C) Her deceased father, Peter Eller. (Book A,.

p. lil)

(D) Her deceased brother, John Eller. (Book A,

p. U2)

(E) Her deceased daughter Rebecca Stoker. (Book

C, p. 338)

(2) Eller Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had himself

baptized in 181*1 for

(F) His deceased uncle, George Eller. (Bk. A, p. 1*1)

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(3) Michael Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had hijnself
baptised In 10L1 for

(0) His deceased mint, Barbara Pertune. It is not
clear whether this aunt was a sister of his
s»ther or father. (Book A, p.

(H) His deceased cousin Absolom Koons. (Book A,
p. 9L)

Pram the above it is apparent that Catherine (tiler)
Stoker in 10l»l was living in or near Nauvoo* Illinois,
when she and her husband embraced the faith is not known
out indications are that it was some years prior to 16L1
whan they lived in Jackson County, Ohio.

Peter Bller^ was living in Rowan County, North Carolina
as early as 6 March 1773 on which date the Patriarchal Bless¬
ing of the Cturch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints states
that Peter Eller's daughter Catherine was born in Rowan Co.,
North Carolina. Rowan County at that time embraced ail 1 of
what, in 1777, became Wilkes Co. and of tfiat, in 1799, be¬
came Ashe Co. Ashe Co. was set off from Wilkes Co. In the
latter year.

Many counties went formed from what originally was
Rowan County, namely Surry and Oillford In 1770, ihirke and
Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Irldell in 1786, Stokes in
1769, Bun 00 mb in 1791, Ashe in 1799, Davidson in lfl?2, Yancey
in 1833, Davie in 1036 and Yadkin in 10%. Sas* of these
counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance
Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry,
Randolph from Ou Ilford, Buncomb and fancy from Burke, Ashe
from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. Thea# facta
saist be kept in mind when tree in*: early Rowan County fami¬
lies.

Land transact ions in western North Carolina between
17L0 and 1700 were so frequently unrecorded end in some
cases titles supplied by the Earl of Granville and othsr
British proprietors were considered eo worthless that prop¬
erty (rntners found it necessary to have their land holdings
legalised by grants from the state. This situation may ex¬
plain why Peter Eller end mary other settlers who are known
to have lived in Row mi , and what la now Davidson County, of
Western North Carolina during the period cannot be found in

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the records of that time. They mast have done something to
support themselves and their families and about all they
could have done was to farm lands that, by squatter rights,
they assumed they owned or lands upon which they worked as
laborers or tenants.

As already stated Peter Eller first appears in the
land records of North Carolina on 10 March and 21a July 1780
when he entered upon and obtained orders to have surveyed
two parcels of land on the upper ford of Rones Creek in
Wilkes County, one containing 200 acres and the other con¬
taining 190 acres. Both of these parcels were surveyed to
him 28 March 1787 and granted to him 18 May 1789. (Grants
878 and 889, Secretary of State Office, Raleigh, North
Carolina.) The first parcel ran scuth of and the second
north of the "upper ford of Roans Creek, a branch of New
River" in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Roans Creek is on
the south fork of New River in Ashe County which county was
formed out of Wilkes County in 1799. None of the three
papers concerned with these grants namely the entry, the
survey or the grant mention any improvements on the land
and as will be shown below it is likely that he did not set¬
tle in the Roans Creek section until after the land was
granted to him 18 May 1789 and probably not until about the
time he purchased the 200 acre farm of Andrew Baker at the
month of Roans Creek 3 August 1789. (Deed Book D, p. 21a2,
Wilkes Co., N. C.)

Peter Eller, apparently, was living in Rowan County,
North Carolina in 1789 upon land located on Reedy Creek,

(now in Davidson County), that was granted to him in two
parcels, one of which, containing 129 (121a) acres was order¬
ed surveyed to him 20 Nov. 1789, surveyed to him 21 Nov.

1789, and granted to him 18 May 1789, (the latter date be¬
ing the same that land on Roans Creek in Wilkes County was
granted to him). The second tract containing 329 acres was
ordered surveyed to him 20 December 1789, surveyed to him
17 June 1788 and granted to him 12 August 1788. The first
parcel, according to the order to survey, adjoined the lands
of James Chaney, Martin Shukell, John Coonce (Koons) and
John Wilson and the second the lands of Isaac Perrimon,
Francis Williams, James Chaney and Joseph Greenwood. (Grants
161a0 and 1921 Secretary of State’s Office, Raleigh, N. C.)

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Both parcels are described as haring "improvements" upon
them the larger one showing that Peter Eller was already
living on the property when the order to survey was issued
to hi* 20 December 1785# The wording of said order to sur¬
vey is as follows*

STATE OP NO PTH CAROLINA No. 2919

JAMS'* BP.AND0N, Entry officer of claims for Lands in
the County of Rowan*

TO THE SURVEYOR of said County, Greeting;

You are hereby required as soon as may be to lay off
and survey for Peter Ellor a tract or parcel of Land
Containing Three Hundred and Twenty five Acres lying
in the County Aforesaid on the waters of the South
Fork of Reedy Creek and Including his Own Improvement
whereon he now lives and Joining James Chaney, Martin
Shuklll A, observing The Directions of the Act of
Assembly in such case made and provided for turning
out Lands. Two just and fair plans of such Survey with
a Certificate Annexed to each you are to transmit with
this Warrant to the Secretary’s office Without Delay.

Giver, under *y hand at Sallstury the twentieth Day of
December Anna. Dorn. 1789

Jai Brandon

It will be noted that Peter Eller waa living on the
land before the order to survey was issued to hi*. Very
likely he had earlier and probably bafore the Revolutionary
War entered upon this land later filing an entry and still
later obtaining a survey and grant fro* the new government
of the State of N. C. The reason for bslleving this to be
the case is that the record of the Patriarchal Blessing
that was accorded to hie eldest daughter Catherine Stoker
by Hire* Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois in July 18L3» gave her birth
date as 6 March 1773 and the piece of he r birth as Rowan
County, North Carolina. His name waa spelled Ellor in the
above quoted order to surrey and Eller in the survey and
grant. In the earlier Da vide on County survey and grant as
well as in the entrys, surveys and grants of the two parcels
on Roans Creek in Wilkes County the name was uniformly

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spelled Eller. Peter Eller sold the land (325 acres) cover¬
ed by the above quoted order to survey to Andrew Farr on 6
December 1793# (Deed Book 16, p. 698, Rowan County, N. C. )

No record was found of the disposal of the 12l* (125) acres
also granted to him on Reedy Creek but a careful search of
the land records of Rowan County probably would disclose it.

George Eller, doubtless Peter Eller's brother, also
obtained an order to have surveyed to him 150 acres of land
on nthe waters of Reedy Creek" in Rowan County 28 December
1778. This land was surveyed for him 2l* Sept. 1785 and
granted to him 25 Oct. 1786. It included "Improvements
Bought of Philip Sewell for completement, " and bordered the
land of James Chaney, Joseph Mussell, John Olliver and Lewis
DeLee. (Grant 11*02, Secy, of State's Office, Raleigh, N.C.)
This writer believes that the George Eller of this grant
was the same as shown in Family V herein, p. 61*.

Leonard Eller, doubtless a brother of Peter and George,
obtained an order, 19 June 1781*, to have surveyed for him,
61*0 acres of land located "on both sides of Lick Creek in
Rowan County, N. C.," (now Davidson Co.). This land Joined
the lands of James Riley, William Grist and Michael Ritter
and included "Richard Beams Mill." The land was surveyed
for Leonard Eller, 30 Dec. 1791, and found to contain only
1*16 acres with no reason given for the discrepancy of 22l*
acres. The land was granted to him 26 November 1793* (Grant
2165, Secretary of State's Office, Raleigh, N. C.) On the
same date, (26 Nov. 1793), he was given two additional
grants of land in Rcwan Co. both on Sheets Creek, waters of
Urray, (now in Davidson Co.), one for 31*8 acres and the
other for 150 acres. (Grants 2166 and 2237 Secretary of
State's office, Raleigh, N. C.) On 13 June 1821 Leonard
Eller of Miami Co., Ohio gave a power of attorney to Samuel
Hoover of Randolph Co., N. C. empowering him "to lease or
sell" his three tracts of land "on the waters of Lick Creek
and the other two on Sheets Creek all now in the possession
of Jacob Hoover late deceased." (Deed Book 1, p. 257, David¬
son County, N. C.) See Family III herein, p. 32.

Returning to Peter Eller it is apparent that he was
living in the Morgan district of Wilkes County, N. C., that
now is in Ashe County, in 1790 when the first census was
taken. At that time his land holdings on Rones Creek in

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Ashe County consisted of the 350 seres that the stste had
granted hi* ®id 200 acres that he had purchased fro* Andrew
Baker of Wilkes County, 3 August 1709. He sold 200 acres
of the land that had been granted to hi* to Gabriel Bam of
Rowan County, 27 Oct. 1795# John Eller, his eldest son, was
one of the witnesses. (Deed Book B-l, p. U66, Wilkes Co.,

N. C.)

Peter Eller added other property to his holdings on 27
Dec. 1797 when two parcels of 50 and 25 acres were granted
to hi* by the State of N. C. These parcels were surveyed
for hi* on 21 March and 11 May 1797 respectively. John
Dick Jr. and Leonard Pouts attested the first survey and
Michael S tuck a rd and Peter Eller Jr. the second. (Grants
1179 and 1532, Secy, of State's Office, Raleigh, N. C.) On
3 March 1797 he purchased fro* Conrad Dick, of Wilkes Co.
his father-in-law, doubtless, 70 acres of land In Wilkes Co.
The deed was witnessed by John and George Koo ns. (Deed
Book D, p. 165, Wilkes Co., !V. C.) As already Mentioned
this land had been entered 20 Feb. 1779 and surveyed for
Conrad Dick 13 April 1795 with Jn° Eller and Mich* S tuckers
attesting the survey as chain carriers. The Land had been
granted to hi* In the aaount of 150 acres on 20 Kov. 1792
but when surveyed was found to contain only 70 acres. (Orant
1250, Secy, of State's Office, Raleigh, W. C.)

There Is sone indication that Peter Eller returned to
Rowan County after hie fa*lly wae Hated In Federal Ceneue
of Wllkee Co., In 1790 and lived there until about 1791*.

He witnessed deeds In Wllkee Co. 1° January and 22 March
1790. His son John obtained his licence In Rowan Co. to
■arry Susanna Kerns (Kem) 5 Mov. 1792 and, on 6 Dec. 1793,
describing himself as being of Rowan Co., (which could have
been an error of the drafter of the deed), Piter Eller sold
to Andrew Farr the land that had been granted to hi* on
R»e<ty Creek In Rowan Co. 12 Aug. 1700. (Deed Book 16, p.

690, Rowan Co.) On 27 Oct. 1795 describing himself as be¬
ing of Wilkes Co. he told land in Wilkes Co. to Gabriel
Bam of Rowan Co. (Deed Book B-l, p. L66, Wilkes Co.)

Peter Eller died before 29 July 1799 as evidenced by
an entry In an old court record book found by this writer
In the courthouse at Wllkeaboro, Wilkes Co., N. C. In Octo¬
ber 195b« It reads as follows!

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"Betsey Eller and John Eller having made application
for Administration on the estate of Peter Eller gave
John Bowers and John Koons for security who were bound
in the sum of 800 pounds and qualified as the law
directs."

Betsey Eller doubtless was Peter’s widow and John his
eldest son. The time was 1799 when Ashe County was being
set off from Wilkes and the year Just preceding the one in
which the first federal census of Ashe Co. was taken. That
census (1800) lists the family of Elizabeth Eller, age over
hSf with one male, aged 16-26, one female, aged 16-26 and
one male, aged under 10 in her household. Undoubtedly she
had other minor and unmarried children but it was so common
in those days to farm adolescent children out as workers for
other families when death had taken their father, that it is
likely that these additional children were not living at
home. Elizabeth Eller is not shown by name in a later
census but in 1830 the family of Jacob Eller included one
female aged between 70 and 80 who may have been his mother
and Peter’s widow.

Three deeds in the courthouse at Jefferson, Ashe Co.,

N. C. record settlement actions on the property of Peter
Eller deceased. In brief they are:

(1) Deed Book M, p. 163, dated 7 July 1809 shows Peter

Eller, Jacob ElLer, George Koontz and William Pen¬
nington of the county of Ashe in the state of N. C.,
heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Leonard
Fantz 200 acres of land in Ashe Co. the same ap¬
parently being the tract that Andrew Baker had deed¬
ed to Peter Eller 3 Aug. 1789. The deed was signed
by all the said heirs except William Pennington.

Why Pennington did not sign is not clear.

(2) Deed Book F, p. hll*, dated 17 Sept. 1816, shows John

Eller, Peter Eller, Jacob Eller, Henry Eller, Michael
Stocker (Stoker), George Koontz and William Pen¬
nington all of the County of Ashe in the State of
N. C., heirs of Peter Eller deceased, selling Luke
White Sr. 122 acres of land located on the south
fork of New River at the mouth of Rones Creek etc.
This deed was signed by all the said heirs named as

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party of the first part in the deed except George
Koont*. Why George Koontt did not sign is not clear.
(3) Deed Book F, p. 83, dated 11 Feb. 1817 shows John
Eller9 J. A. (Jacob) Eller, Henry Eller, Michael
Stocker (Stoker), George Koontt and Willi a* Penning¬
ton all of the county of Ashe in the state of N. C.,
heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Frederick
Black, 2 % acres of land on the south fork of Hew
River the land being that warranted to Peter Eller,

3 May 17^3 and granted to hi* 27 Dec. 1797. All of
these heirs signed the deed*

This writer believes that other heirship deeds exist
probably of earlier dates and, if found, would show a
Bu*gardner heir. The above three deeds distributed only
3h7 acres of Peter Eller's estate when it appears that it
consisted at hie death of at least U70 acres. The Bum-
gardner connection is suggested in an ancient family Bible
in which the birth dates of the seven children of John Eller,
eldest son of Peter and Elisabeth (Dick) Eller was recorded.
Another birth entry in this old Bible is that of Simon Bum-
gardner, bom 8 January 1607. This child probably was a
son of a daughter of Peter and Elisabeth (Dick) Eller who
had married a Ekimgerdner, probably James Buj^rardner.

The old Bible was printed in the German language at
Halle, Germany in 1770 and is now in the posseselon of Mr.
Wade E. Eller of Warrensvllle, Ashe Co., N. C. It may be
the Bible which George Michael Eller willed to his son
Jacob because on page 17 Is written "Jacob Eller his Bible."
On page IK of the vorrede or preface is also written "The
Roly Bible Peter Eller." The only Information of genealo¬
gical value in the Bible are the dates of birth of all but
the youngest child, Mary, of John and 5fcisannah (Kerns)

Eller shown in Family 71, hereof and of Simeon Busigardner
above mentioned*

The 1790 Federal Census shows Peter Eller of the
Morgan district of Wilkes Co. (that in 1799 became Ashe Co.)
with a family of himself and wife, one son over 16, two
sons under 16 and L females whose ages were not indicated*

His eldest son John probably was not living at home at the
time and was not included. Peter Eller's name is shown as

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Peter Ellis in the published census of North Carolina for
1790 but the original records which this writer saw in the
Archives Building in Washington, D. C. plainly show it to
have been Peter Eller and not Peter Ellis*

The 1800 census of Ashe County shows Elizabeth Eller,
aged over U9, doubtless the widow of Peter, with a family
of 1 male and 1 female each aged between 16-26 and one son
aged under 10. This young son, doubtless, was George Eller,
born after 1790.

2

The personal estate of Peter Eller was sold and an ac¬
counting reported to the Nov. 1799 court of Wilkes Co., N.C.
by John Eller Adr. The property, 111 individual sales, con¬
sisted of household utensils and furniture, farm yard tools
and accessories, including one tomahawk, ten sheep, fifteen
head of cattle, among which were a yoke of yearlings and one
yearling bull, hogs, geese, bee hives etc. The widow took a
good deal of the furniture and household accessories includ¬
ing interestingly enough a trumpet which indicates that the
early Ellers possessed musical interest. Other items taken
by her were one lot of books, a chest, five head of hogs,
four cows, one mare colt, two sheep, oven, hammer and anvil
and a pair of saddle bags. Other purchasers were John Eller
Peter Eller, Elizabeth Eller Jr., Michael Stucker (Stoker),
Michael Bumgardner, Leonard Bumgardner, John Dick, Leonard
Pfouts, Jacob Huntsinger, Daniel Dickson, James Dickson,
James Cash, William Cash, Henry Michael Sr., Henry Michael
Jr., Daniel Michael, Thomas Baker, Alexander Smith who pur¬
chased the tomahawk and some of the farm animals and other
items, David Smith, Frederick Tounce, Christian Shear,
Abraham Shear, Coonrod Coldiron, David Ingram, Balsar Raimer
Conrat Grub, William Colward, George Miller, John Calloway,
Allen Nowlin, John Holman and John Tirey. The amount of the
sale, including the items taken by the widow, totaled 300
pounds, 18 shillings, 7 pence. (Will Book 1, pp. 9k0-hl,
Wilkes Co., N. C.)

The children of Peter Eller^ and his wife Elizabeth
Dick were :

(1) John Eller^, b. say about 1767; d. 1823; m. , licence
dated in Rowan Co., N. C., 9 Nov. 1792, Susannah
Kerns, b. 1769/66; d. 10 April 1893, aged 87 years.
(Gravestone in New Hope Cem., Parlears, N. C.) See

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Family VI, p. 69 herein.)

(2) Catherine Eller^, b. in Rowan Co., N. C., 6 March 1773;

d. after 1850; m., about 1791/92, Michael Stoker, b.
in Frederick Co., Md. 2 h March 1762, ( Bible Records);
d. after 27 Oct. 1836. Michael Stokerd (sic) was
listed in the 1790 Federal Census of Wilkes Co.,

Morgan District as haring a residence there and
living alone. The birth date of Catherine Eller, the
names of her oe rents and the state and county of her
birth were glren in the original patriarchal blessing
accorded her 30 July I8ii3 at Naueoo, Ill. by Hjrrum
Snlth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. (Vol. 3, p. 1LB, Salt Lake City, Utah) (See
Family VII, p. herein.)

(3) IV ter Ell«r Jr.3, b. 1877/1778 (18<» P.d. C.nwe of

Wllfcae Co., N. 0.), d. In Wllk.8 Co., v. c., Not.

1851; m. Mary Pennington. She probably was a dau.
of William Pennington and a sister of William Penn¬
ington who, with Peter Eller Jr.\ administered the
estate of William Pennington, deceased. On 2 July
1812 Peter Eller and William Pennington "administra¬
tors of the estate of William Pennington deceased"
sold lard of the estate that was granted to William
Pennington on the north side of a fork of New River
15 Dec. 1796. The deed was signed by Peter Eller and
William Pennington and witnessed by Elisabeth Penn¬
ington. (Deed Book C, p. Ii57, Ashe Co., N. C.)
Elisabeth Pennington, the witness, could have been
the wife of William Pennington, the ertotnletrator,
and a s is ter of Peter Eller Jr.' or she could have
been the widow or daughter of the deceased. (See
Eller Family VIII, p. 12L herein.)

(li) Elisabeth Eller^. That there was a daughter Elisabeth
is proved ty the record of sale of the personal es¬
tate of Peter Eller as reported to the Nov. 1799
court of Wilkes Co. wherein "Elisabeth Eller Jr.” Is
named as the purchaser of such Items ss two beds and
furniture, spinning whsel, smoothing iron, two chairs,
bell, bridle, wooden water can and two plglns (water
dlppere). (Will Book I, pp. 4jO-ijl, Wilkes Co., N.C.)
The fact that she was called "Elisabeth Eller Jr."

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indicates that she was not then married and the
character of her purchases suggest that she was pre¬
paring to be. Certain deeds in Ashe Co., N. C, (Book
M, p. 163 and Book F, pp. 83 and hi h) prove that one
daughter of Peter Eller^ married William Pennington
and the belief has been that it was Elizabeth, and
the same Elizabeth Pennington who witnessed the deed
referred to under Peter Eller Jr.-^ next above* The
fact, however, that Michael Stoker, son of Peter
Eller’s daughter Catherine, had himself baptized for
his ’’deceased aunt, Barbara Pertune", (page 21 ),
casts seme doubt on this, the name Pertune possibly
having been meant for Pennington* Of course, Barbara
Pertune could have been an aunt on his father’s side.
If, however, it was true that Barbara Eller^ was the
wife of William Pennington then the question arises
who did Elizabeth Eller marry? This writer would
guess that it was a Bumgardner and that Simeon Bum-
gardner, b. 8 Jan. 1807 and recorded in the German
Bible published at Halle, Germany in 1770, and men¬
tioned above, was their son. Michael and Leonard
Bumgardner purchased several items of the Peter
Eller^ estate in 1799. (Will Book 1, pp. 5U0— Ul,
Wilkes Co*, N. C*) A James Bumgard (sic) (wife
Hannah) was granted land on New River that bordered
land of Peter Eller, 22 Aug. 1795 and other land near
by was granted to Michael Bumgarner (sic) 23 July
1791a* A James Bunyard (sic) is shown in the 1810
census of Ashe Co. as being between 16-26 years of
age with wife of same age and with a son and daughter
both under 10, A James Beal Bunyard (sic) died in
Ashe Co. in 1817. His will, dated lli Aug, 1817, men¬
tioned wife Hannah and children, (1) Samuel; (2) Nan¬
cy; (3) Betsey and also mentioned "my boys" but named
only Samuel.

(5) A daughter Eller^, probably Barbara, who married William
Pennington, son, doubtless, of William Pennington Sr.
whose dau., Mary Pennington, married Peter Eller Jr,3
(Read what is said under Elizabeth ElleiP next above.)
The sale of Peter Eller’s personal property as re¬
ported to the Nov. Court of Wilkes Co, in 1799 shows
no sales to a Pennington which implies that William

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The 1800 census of Ashe Co. shows William Pennington
aged between 16 and 26 with a wife of same age and no
children. The 1610 census of Ashe Co. shows W. Penn¬
ington (obviously not the sane unless his age was in¬
correctly stated) aged 18-26 living with a female,
his mother probably, aged over 15 and with two females
and two males each under 10. He is shown in no later
census of Ashe or Wilkes Counties. If the two census'
referred to the sane person then the implication would
be that the wife of William Pennington died prior to
1610 and that he signed same of the Peter Eller^ heir*
ship deeds (supra) for mid in behalf of his minor
children who were grandchildren of Peter Eller^.

Family memory says that the family removed to Oeorgla
but if so it must have been after 11 Feb. 1817 when
WIIII01 Pemlng ton of Ashe Co., N. C. last signed as
an heir of Peter Eller^. (Book F, p. 83, Ashe Co.,

N. C. Deeds.)

(6) Jacob Eller^, b. 1781a (18*$ Fed. Census of Ashe Co.,

N.C. gave his age as 66); d., in Ashe Co., 3 Nov.

1655; about 1805, Katherine White, dau. probably
of Luke White, b. 1769, (1890 Fed. Census of Ashe Co.,
N.C.), d. 3 Jan. 189b* (See Family IX, page P0
herein. )

(7) Mary Eller^, b. between 1781a and 1788; d. 1672, aged 81a

(census records indicate b. 1781a ) ; m. George Koons
(Koonts) b. 1785/86; d. 26 March I6ii9, age 63. The
family settled in Henry Co., Ind. (See Family X,
page 111 herein.)

(8) Henry Eller^, b. 1796/88; (1850 Fed. Census of Asha Co.,

N.C. gave his age as 62); d., in Ashe Co., N.C., about
1676; m., 1811, Elisabeth Johnson of Iridell Co., N.C.)
(See Family XI, page 172 for children.)

(9) Oeorge Ellar, b. after 1790; d. before 1811 when his
nephew, Eller Stoker, was baptised for him in Nauvoo,
Ill. (Index to Nauvoo Baptisms for the Dead, Gene¬
alogical Soc., Salt Lake City, Utah.) He also, doubt¬
less, was the son, age under 10, shown in the family
of Elisabeth Eller, Peter's widow, in the 1600 census
of Ashe Co., N. C.

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LEONARD ELLER

Second son of George Michael Eller, Family 1, p. 6
FAMILY III

LEONARD ELLER^, (George Michael Eller'*’) was born, ac¬
cording to "Portrait and Biographical Record of Madison and
Hamilton Counties, Indiana, 1893, pp. 62U, 625, M on 20 March
175U in Germany. Other records say he was born in the U.S.A.
which, probably, is correct. He died, according to Hamil¬
ton Co., Indiana Court Records, in 1839 or 181*0. He mar¬
ried Elizabeth who died in 1831 between the dates of 13 Jan.
and 27 June. (Deed Books 8, p. 388 and 11, p. 1*63, Miami
Co., Ohio.) Her surname was not found. As already stated,
one Leonard Eller, doubtless the same, was mentioned as a
son in the will of George Michael Eller^ probated in Freder¬
ick Co., Md. , Aug. 25, 1778 and shown to be one of his three
eldest children, a son Peter being the eldest son and a
daughter Elizabeth being the other one of the three. Other
children mentioned in his will as "n jy six youngest children"
were Jacob, George, John, Eve, Catherine and Maria,

William Eller, 1819-1891*, son of John Eller and grand¬
son of Leonard Eller wrote the following in a Bible that is
now, 1956, in the possession of Mrs. Paul Joseph Harrop,

1613 W. Riverview Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

"William Eller was Bom July 26, A.D., 1819 John
Eller was mi father he was Born in Ashe County, North
Carolina his father was Lenard Eller he was bom in at
fort (ford, fork) littors, North Carolina his father
came from Bebon (Baden) Co. germany in the year 1690."

The writer has not been able to locate fort (ford,
fork) littors in North Carolina and he suspects that "Bebon
Co., germany" was meant for the Republic of Baden in south
west Germany, and, of course, it could scarcely have been
possible for Leonard Eller1 s father to have come from
Germany as early as 1690 unless he was a babe in arms and
came with his parents. Even then he would have been pretty
old to have had a son Leonard barn 20 March 175 !*• What
would be more likely is that Leonard’s grandfather Eller
was born in 1690 and came later to America with his son

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George Michael.

If, as the Bible statement asserts, Leonard Eller was
bom in North Carolina then his father was also living there
and may have been the Michael Eller found in the list of
taxablas in Rowan Co., N. C. in 1759. Jacob, Christian and
Melker Eller, as already stated, were also in Rowan Co. in
1762-65. It is entirely possible that George Michael Eller,
Leonard's father, went to North Carolina with the other
Ellers and later returned to Frederick County, Md. where he
is first found in the records on April 1L, 1773 when, de¬
scribing himself as then being of Frederick Co., Kd. , he
bought 100 acres of land at a place called "Hammond Phife"
(Strife) where Henry Eller, doubtless his brother, had pur¬
chased land 6 June 1767. Hammond Strife was a tract of
1230 acres of land that was patented to John Hammond 10
August 1753* It was located in Frederick Co., Maryland
about ten alias north east of Frtderlcktown and Just east
of the town of Johnsvllle in the District of Johnsvllle.

(See Family I herein, page 6. )

Leonard Eller^ first appears in the North Carolina re¬
cords 19 June 178ii when he entered 6L0 acres of land in
Rowan County, North Carolina on both sides of Lick Creek,
(now in Davidson Co.) This land adjoined lands of James
Riley, William Trlst and Michael Ritter and Included
Richard Beam's mill. L 16 acres of this land was surveyed
for Leonard Eller 30 December 1791 with no explanation of
what became of the reralnlng 22h acres. The L16 acres were
granted to him 26 November 1793. (Grant 2165, Secretary of
State's office, Raleigh, N. C.) On the same date, (26 Nov.
1793) he was given two additional grants In Rowan County,
both on Sheets Creek, waters of Orray (now in Davidson Co.,
North Carolina) one for 3iifl acres and the other for 150
acres. (Orants 2166 and 2237, Secretary of State's office,
Raleigh, N. C.) Waters of Urry doubtless refers to creeks
in Davidson Co. that flow into the Uwharrle River of Western
Randolph Co., N. C. On 13 June 1021 Leonard Eller of Miami
Co., Ohio gave a power of attorney to Samel Hoover of
Randolph Co., N. C. , empowering him "to lease or sell" his
three tracts of land, "one on the waters of Lick Creek and
the other t%» on Sheets Creek all now in the possession of
Jacob Hoover, late deceased." (Deed Book 1, p. 257, David-

3 h

son Co., N.C.) These Hoovers were early members of the
family from whom descended Herbert Hoover, the thirty first
President of the United States.

It should be re-stated here that land was granted on
25 Oct. 1786 and 12 Aug. 1788, respectively to George and
Peter Eller in that part of Rowan that in 1820 became David¬
son Co. (See Families II and V herein.) These two and
Leonard Eller, doubtless, were brothers. Another brother,
the records strongly indicate, was Jacob Eller who settled
in Botetort Co., Va. about the same time and one of the John
Ellers shown in the 1790 and later census' of Rowan County,

N. C., probably, was another brother.

Leonard Eller^ is shown in the 1790 census of Rowan Co.,
N.C. at age over 16 with a family of U females, including
the female head of the family, ages not indicated, and with
three males all under 16, He is shown in the 1800 census of
Randolph County in N. C. as Leonard Ellier aged between 26
and U5 with a wife of same age and with a family of one
female aged between 16 and 26, one male aged between 10 and
16 and with three males and two females all aged under 10.

He removed to Miami Co., Ohio about 1801 and settled in the
Stillwater River Valley of what in 1807 became Union Town¬
ship.

Leonard Eller^ lived in Miami Co., Ohio until 183k or
early 1835, (Deed Book 16, p. 685 and Deed Book 13, p. HO
of Miami Co., Ohio), at which time he removed to Hamilton
Co., Indiana where he died in 1839 or I8ii0. (Administrator
apptd.) He purchased land in Indiana, district of Brook-
ville, Hamilton County, as early as 31 Jan. 1826, (Deed Book
D, p. 180, Hamilton Co., Ind.), and again purchased land
there 9 June 1832 (Deed Book A, p. l*3k, Hamilton Co., Ind.)
but in both deeds he described himself as residing in Miami
Co., Ohio. The latest deed showing him to be of Miami Co.,
Ohio was dated 15 March l83lu (Deed Book 16, p. 685, Miami
Co., Ohio.) The earliest deed showing him to be living in
Hamilton Co., Ind. was dated 10 March 1835. (Deed Book 13,
p. 110, Miami Co., Ohio.)

"The History of Miami Co., Ohio," 1880, p. 225, says
that Leonard Eller^ settled in Section 35, Union Twsp. of that
county, coming from North Carolina. He came with Henry
Fouts also of North Carolina who settled in Section 33 which

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turned out to be better land, Eller, the account says, was
a much older nan than Touts and possessed more wans, the
greater portion of which he invested in land, "His five
sons," continued the account, "settled near hi* and, being
robust and industrious, soon nade a risible nark in the
forest," The account concludes by saying "There seems to
be s one diversity of opinion in regard to the first of the
resolute nen tiio invaded the wild domain of nature in the
township (Union Twsp,) and wrested fro* her giant grasp the
gifts with wh ich she so reluctantly parts. The weight of
authority seeps to be in favor of Henry Touts who in compa ijj
with Leormrd and Arlan Eller, in the year 1801, erected the
first cabin nestled in this forest primeval. The Ellers
located in the southern part of the township, east of the
Stillwater River, while the Touts' settled on the west side."

■The Centennial History of Troy, Pique and Ki ami Co.,
Ohio" by Thomas C, Ha r bough, 1909, page 91, says that it
was a "tide of emigration that flowed northward from the
Carolines that brake upon the shores of the Stillwater and
populated Union Township, " and further on continues by say¬
ing, "In the year 1001 Henry Touts and the two Ellers,

Leonard and Adam, settled in Union Township in the very
heart of the forest primeval.” Others coming about the
same time were Caleb Hendlnhall with hie family of six
followed by John Mast and Frederick Yount the latter of
whom located a mill site and supplied the settlers with
flour and maal. In lflOL came ffcvld Kota Sr. with his five
sons who settled on the west side of the river while William
Fincher, William Neal, Benjamin Pike and Jacob Byrkett
settled on the east side. The Hoover family of North
Carolina came later, the preaidant's grandfather, Ell Hoover,
having bean bom in the township in 18 ?0.

Apparently Leonard Eller? and his son Adam returned to
Ncrth Carolina for a time after 1800 because Lenard Ellor
(tic) of Rjtfidolph Co,, N. C, purchased from Samuel Underwood
150 acres of lend on Caraway Creek in Randolph Co,, N.C,, 17
Nov, 1803* (Deed Book 0, p. Ii90, Randolph Co,) It it
possible that the name was Leonard El lord because, on 10
Sept, 1792, one Lenard El lord of Randolph County purchased

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from Thomas Curtis 2^0 acres of land on Caraway Creek in
Randolph Co. including "all improvements, orchards, mines,
minerals Hereditaments and appurtenance to the said land
belonging” and also "all of the estate rights, title, inter¬
est, property claims and demands" etc. (Deed Book 5, p#

172, Randolph Co., N. C.) The name was spelled Ellord in
all places in the first deed and Ellor in the second.

Another indication that Leonard Eller returned from
Miami Co., Ohio for a time after 1800 arises from the fact
that his grandson, David Eller, son of Adam gave his date
of birth as 1805/6 and place of birth North Carolina in the
census taken in Marion County, Indiana in 1850. His brother,
Andrew, bom 1807/8, gave his birth place as Ohio.

Two land grants to Leonard Eller are recorded in the
Miami County Courthouse at Troy, Ohio. They apparently
were confirmations by President Madison of land earlier
taken up by Leonard Eller. They are dated 30 July 1812 and
conveyed two quarter sections of land, one the S.E. quarter
and the other the N.W. quarter in Section 26 of Township 6,
Range 5, East of the meridian of lands directed to be sold
at Cincinnati, Ohio by Act of Congress entitled "An act
providing for the sale of land of the United States in the
territory North West of the Ohio and above the mouth of the
Kentucky River." (Deed Book 26, p. 270, Miami Co., Ohio,

Vol. 1, p. 316 and Vol. 20, p. 172 at Cincinnati.)

According to the Harbough Centennial History supra,
Congress Land (Public Lands) in the Ohio country prior to
1799 ccxild not be sold in quantities of less than U000 acres
but in that year through the efforts of General Harrison,
(William Henry Harrison the 9th president, then a member of
congress), a law was passed authorizing the sale of one half
the public lands in sections and the other half in half sec¬
tions. A law permitting the sale of land in quarter sections
was passed in 180b.

On 2$ Sept. 1828 Leonard Eller, his wife Elizabeth con¬
curring, filed a plat and field notes of a town," laid off
by Leonard Eller, proprietor, to be known as Frederick Town."
(Deed Book 7, p. lb, Miami Co., Ohio.) It consisted of UO
lots situated in Union Township of Miami County. The town
was rectangular in outline, the long way being approximately
north and south. The plat was bounded by North Street, South

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Street, West Street and East Street and intersecting the
town half way between North and South Streets was a street
named Cross Street. Later reoords show to whom these lots
were conveyed. It would be interesting to know if the
selection of Frederick Town for the town’s name was in
honor of Frederick Town, Maryland near where Leonard Eller's
parents lived and where, perhaps, he was bom. The town is
only barely re mease red by present citiaens of the county*
Leonard Eller died intestate in 1839 or lfiLO when an
administrator of his Intestate estate was appointed. Dis¬
tribution was not completed until 13 Nov. 16 when the
administrator, David Wilkinson, filed his final account.

This account showed that Leonard Eller had eight children
who married and left children only three of whom, namely
Mary Lucinda North, Joseph Eller and Jacob Eller survived
him. The heirs at law of all deceased children ware named,
some of them being great grandchildren of Leonard Eller, as
shown below. The ohlldren, given below, of his sen Joseph,
a survivor of his father were found In the settlement papers
of Joseph's estate and In the book "Portrait and Biographical
Record of Madison and Hamilton Countlas, Indiana" by Thomas
Harbough, 1893*

2

Children of Leonard and Elisabeth Ellsr were i
(1) Adam Eller^, (Leonard?, Qaorge Michael*) b. say about
1780) d. before lfiLO; m. probably Nanny (Nancy) Wood
of Randolph Co., N. C. The History of Miami Co. ,

Ohio sgy a that he was s settler with his father,
Leonard Eller, in that county Indicating that ha
probably was Leonard's eldest son. The History of
Indianapolis and Marion Co., Indiana by 9u Ignore,

I66ii, p. 9i8, says that Adam Eller came with his
family to Marlon Co., Indiana from Stillwater, (mean¬
ing obviously the Stillwater River section of Miami
Co.), Ohio In an early dgy and entered 160 acres of
land. He was s farmer and had daughters Elisabeth,
Lucinda and Nancy and sons David, Andrew and Leonard.
David, the account continues, married Luclnds Red¬
dick, went to California In the gold rush, returned
In lR'Qj to Klrksvllla, Wayne Co., Missouri where ha
settled. He died In Wayne Co., Missouri in 1875*

Continuing, the account says that Adam’s son, Leon¬
ard Eller, went west at age 20 while Adam's son
Andrew, married 1st., Martha McConnell, dan. of John
McConnel, and 2nd., Elizabeth Flannigan, who lived
only three years, and 3rd., the widow of John Calvin
Johnson. Andrew moved in 1859 to Missouri, returned
to Indiana during the Civil War and after the war
moved back to Missouri. Pages 66, 537 and 539 of
the same history states that Adam Eller entered 80
acres in Lawrence Twsp. of Marion Co., Aug. 182U and
that Leonard, Joseph and John Eller each entered 80
acres of land in Lawrence Township April 1825 and
that Adam, Leonard, David and Andrew Eller were on
the Lawrence Township tax list of 1829.

The above account of Adam Eller and his family,
omitting the son John who probably died early or
moved to other parts, checks with the settlement and
distribution papers of his father’s estate and pro¬
vides the given names of Adam's two daughters which
were not given in the said settlement papers. The
first Federal Census of Miami County, Ohio, 1820,
shows that Adam Eller was then living in that county
at an age between 26 and U5 with a wife of same age,
two male children, aged between 10 and 16 and four
female children all under 10. This writer looked
for him, without results, in the land and other re¬
cords of Miami and Montgomery Counties in Ohio and
Hamilton County, Ohio.

The children of Adam Eller^were, order of birth
not certain: (Hist, of Indianapolis and Marion Co.,
Ind. by Berry L. Sulgrove, 188U, p. 5U8 and father’s
estate settlement in Hamilton Co., Ind.)

(1) Leonard Eller^, b. probably about 1803; d. 1850.
He married 13 Sept. 1832, Elizabeth Pike.
(Miami Co. Marriages) According to Sulgrove ’s
History (188U), Leonard Eller came to Marion
Co., Ind. with his father Adam Eller in April
1825 and "removed west at the age of 20 (prob¬
ably meaning "west" to Warren Co., Ind.) where

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the estate settlement of one Leonard Eller was
filed lii Aug. 1850 with a renunciation of his
widow, Elizabeth, and with children as shown
below. Leonard Eller entered SO acres of land
in Section 10 and another 60 in Section 11 of
Marlon Co. in April 192$ and was on the Law¬
rence Twsp., Marion Co. tax list of 1829. His
fire children were minors at the time of his
death. His widow was appointed, lii Aug. 1850,
guardian of the three eldest, the other two
being young enough, probably, to not require
guardianship at their ages. His widow re¬
married, 20 March 185Ja, as her 2nd. husband,
Howland Harris who was appointed guardian of
her two youngest children, 8 April 1857.

The children of Leonard Ellei^and his wife
Elisabeth weret

(1) Benjamin Eller*', b. 1831; a., 11 Aug. 1853,

Bann Hillln. (Warren Co., Ind. Marrlagesj

(2) Andrew Eller**, b. 1837.

(3) Harriett Isabella Eller^, b. 18ii0.

(Is) Joshua Kller^.

(5) Thomas Eller^.

2) Elizabeth Eller^, d. April i860; a. Joshua Bed-
dick, b. 20 May lQ04a in Washington, Penna. ; d.
1859, son of William and Margaret (Trump) Red¬
dick. (Hist, of Indianapolis etc. by Sulgrove,
188L, p. 539.) Joshua Reddick received an
eq^ial portion, with other children of Adam
Eller, of Leonard Eller Sr.'s estate. They had
children, three of whom, all full grown, died
within two weeks of their father's death.

Their mother died the followli^ April of the
same illness, then described as milk sickness.
(3) Catherins Lucinda Ellei^4. She married 1st., }0
Apr. 1836, Samuel North and 2nd., Mr. Mitchell.
"Lucinda North or Mitchell” (sic) was given an
equal portion, with other children of Adam
Eller, of Leonard Eller Sr.'e estate. At the
end of the settlement paper Is a statement that

"Catherine Lucinda Mitchell is entitled yet to
the sum of $15. 3k." Family probably removed
to Illinois. Children, if any, not found.

(U) David Eller^, b. in North Carolina in 1806; d.
in Adair Co., Missouri in 1875. The marriage
records of Marion Co., Ind. show that David
Eller married, 25 June 1827, Lucinda Gothram
bom Lucinda Reddick. Her first husband was
David L. Gothram whom she married 9 June 1825.
(Marion Co., Indiana Marriages, Book 1, p. 31.)
Sulgrove1? History says that David Eller was a
farmer and carpenter and that he went to Calif,
in the gold rush and returned from there in
185U and settled in Adair Co., Missouri where
he died in 1875. His grandson, Mr. James H.
Eller^ of Gaylord, Kansas, in a letter to this
writer in 1925 said that David Eller married
Lucinda Reddick thus confirming the account in
Sulgrove*s History. The letter also said that
his son, James H. Eller'*, was bom in 1837 and
died in 1923 at the age of 86 leaving children
as shown below.

The children of David Eller and his wife
Lucinda, according to the 1850 census of
Marion County, Indiana, Lawrence Twsp. were:

(1) David Eller1*, aged 2lt.

(2) Maria Eller*, aged 22.

(3) William Eller*, aged 19.

(k) James Eller*, aged lit. He doubtless was

James H. Eller*, mentioned above. His
children, according to his son James H.
Eller^ of Gaylord, Kansas were, (1) James
H. Eller^; (2) William Eller^; (3) Andrew
Eller^*; (It) Joshua Eller^.

Andrew Eller*, aged 11.

Louisa Eller*, aged 9.

Joshua Eller*, aged 2.

(5) Andrew Eller^, b. 1808; death date not found.
Marion Co., Ind. Marriages show that he mar¬
ried three times, 1st., 2 Dec. 1830, Martha

(5)

(6)
(7)

ill

McConnel who d. 181*9. She was a dau. of John
and Betsy (Brown) McConnel. He married 2nd. ,

7 Feb. 18%, Mary Ann Flannagan who died in
1853# (Sulgrove's Hist, of Indianapolis and
Marion Co., Ind. give her nans as Elitabeth
Flannagan which doubtless is an error.) He
married 3rd., 17 July 1855, Isabella F. Johnson
widow of John Calrin Johnson, deceased. Andrew
Eller entered 60 acres of land in Lawrence Twsp
of Marion Co., Ind. and settled there about
1835, later, about 181*0, removing to another
farm near by where he lived until about 1853
when he mewed to another far* in the county.

In 1859 he removed to Missouri but returned to
Marlon Co. during the Civil War to escape war
trouble in Missouri. When the war ended he
returned to Missouri. According to his nephew*
son Jk«s H. Ell*rr of Gaylord, Kansas, four
of his sons, (probably should have said three)
were killed in the war of the Rebellion.

Children of Andrew Eller^ and his first wife,
Martha McConnel, according to the 1850 Federal
Census, we ret

(1) Elitabeth Eller*', b. 1832, probably mar¬

ried 10 Aug. 1852, Cyrus Smith, (Marlon
Co., Ind. Marriages).

(2) Nancy Eller1, b. 1833 » probably married 3

March 1856 Charles Reddick (Marion Co.,
Ind. Marriages).

(3) Thomas Eller*, b. 1837.

(1*) Isabel! Ellerr, b. 1838; probably married,

2 Nov. 1870, Louis Dlllahunt (Marion Co.,
Ind. Marriages).

(5) David Eller**, b. 1839.

(6) Martha Eller^, b. 181*0.

(7) Andrew Eller Jr.*\ *>• 1^1*3.

(8) Christopher Eller*", b. 181*7; probably mar-

ried lii July 1878, Susanna Todd (Marion
Co., Ind. Marriages),

(6) Nancy Eller , m. 29 Nov, l83h, Jonathan (John¬

son) Reddick, One Jonathan Reddick received
an equal portion, with other children of Adam
Eller, of Leonard Eller Sr*s estate. Family
probably removed to Illinois,

(7) John Eller*1, probably a son. A John Eller

entered 80 acres of land in Lawrence Twsp. of
Marion Co., Indiana at the same time, April
1825, with Leonard and Joseph Eller, sons of
Adam,

3 2 1

Elizabeth Eller , (Leonard , George Michael ) m, 21

Sep, 1807 Thomas North, (Miami Co., Ohio Marriages)
They had children, (1) Matilda North, m, Mr, Rich¬
ards; (2) Alexander North,

John Eller^, (Leonard^, George Michael-*-) b., according
to the Harrop Bible record, supra, in North Carolina;
m, lli Feb, 1811, Sarah (Sally) Burkit, b, about 1792,
(Miami Co., Ohio Marriages,) He died, in 1830, ac¬
cording to Harrop Bible record but a guardianship for
his minor children Philip, Enoch (Enos) and Elizabeth
was dated 23 April I8I1I. (Estate No, 1112, Miami Co,,
Ohio) The latter date may have been about the time
of his wife Sarah* 3 death, Joseph Eller, uncle doubt¬
less of said children, was appointed guardian. The
18£0 census of Miami Co., Ohio shows a female,

Malinda Eller, aged 17 living with Sarah Eller, aged
£8, the latter, doubtless the widow of John Eller^.

The children of John and Sarah (Burkit) Eller
were, order of birth not certain:

(1) Catherine Eller*1, m. 22 Oct. 1831, Daniel Michael.

(2) Joseph Eller*1, b, 1812, m, 1 Jan. 1835, Sarah

Friend, b. 1813. According to the 1850 Federal
Census he had children, (1) Henry Eller*, b.
1837; (2) Susannah Eller*, b. 1839; (3) Eliza¬
beth Eller , b. 181*1; (U) Rebecca Eller*, b.

18U6 and John Eller*, b. 18U8,

(3) Jacob Eller*1, b. 1816; m. Elizabeth, b, 1823.

Ii3

(Fed. Census of Miami Co., Ohio, 1850)

CD William Eller^, b. 26 July 1819; d. 23 March
1^9^; m. 27 Aug. 18L3, Elizabeth Friend*

(Bible records; also Miami Co., Ohio Marriages)
She was bom 1819/20 and d. 23 March 1895, aged
75. (Miami Co. death records^ William Eller
was the grandson of Leonard Eller and the
author of the paragraph about his Eller fore¬
bears, ouoted supra.

The children of William and Elizabeth
(Friend) Eller, according to family records,

were :

(1) Esther Eller , b. 18L5; *. Ell Honeyman.

(2) S«r*h B. EU*rC, o. 1«j6; ■. 27 Ko*. 1875,

Davis Pearson.

(3) Susan C. Eller , b. 18L»8; m. Andrew Robbins.
(L) Lambert Eller'', t>. 2} July 1850; d. 2b

June 1927, aged 77 years. He married,

29 Dec. 1875, Emma Beard, b. 1858/59; d.,

8 March 1885, aged 27 after birth of her
daughter Emma. He was a successful farm¬
er in Miami Co. near Kashville, Ohio where
both lie buried.

Children of Lambert and Emma (Beard)
Eller were (Bible recorde)i

(1) Orin Eller^, b. lb Aug. 1876 or 1878;

d. 10 Kch. 1881.

(2) Bertha Ellen Eller^, b. 18 Dec. 1879;

d. young.

(3) Martha E. Eller , b. 29 June 1881; d.

L Feb. 1933; ■. 29 Mch. 1897, Fred
W. DeWeese, b. 16 Aug. 1878; d. b
June 1918. They had ) children;

(1) Alpha May DeWeese , b. Oct. 6,
1898; m. 29 Aug. 1925, Paul Joseph
Harrop, b. 6 July 1°90. Family
lives (1956) at 1613 W. Riverview
Ave. , Dayton, Ohio. Thar had one
son Donald Robert Harrop^, b. 16

April 1928; d. 19 Dec. 1952, in
the Arny Hospital at Battle Creek,
Mich.; (2) Russell Devaugn DeWeese?
b. 1 Jan. 1910; (3) Infant child,
died immediately.

(li) William Eller6, b. 19 July 1882;

still living, (1956), at Tipp City,
Ohio; m., 1902, Ethel Bowers, b.
1882 who is still living. She is
a dau. of William Bowers. Their
children were, (Family records);

(1) James C. Eller? who m. Ann R.
Rush of St. Louis, Mo. Family
lives at Milford, Ohio near Cin¬
cinnati with two children named
James A. Eller^ and Donald V.
Eller^; (2) Irene Eller? who m.
William Lange; (3) Myrtle Eller?
who m. Robert E. Roney; (U) Opal
Eller? who m. Cecil Roller; ( 5)
Pauline Eller? who m. Lewis G.
Smith and (6) Ruby Eller? who m*
John White.

(5) Eirma Eller6, b. 26 Feb. 1885; d. 23
July 1885*

(5) Martin Eller^, d. 25 Apr. 1911 and interred in

Highland Cem. at Covington, Ohio. His wife
was Sarah, surname not found. His children,
according to his estate settlement in Miami
Co., Ohio, were, (1) P. P. Eller^ of Columbia,
Ohio; (2) F. A. Eller^, address not known;

(3) Ida Eller^, m. Mr. Fuller and lived at
Bradford, Ohio; (li) 0. T. Eller^ of Columbus,
Ohio; (5) Hayes B. Eller^ of Bradford, Ohio,
d. 25 Oct. 19U9; (6) Ira G. Eller^ of Brad¬
ford, Ohio, m. Nora 0. _ .

(6) Enos (Enoch) Eller^, b. 1826 (census of Miami

Co., Ohio, 1850). He was a minor child 23
Apr. 181*1 when Joseph Eller was appt. his
guardian. (Est. #1112, 23 Apr. 181*1, Miami
Co., Ohio.)

(7) Philip Eller . He was a minor child 23 April

ldiil when Joseph Eller was appointed guardian.

(8) Elizabeth Eller*1 2 3 4, b. 1827; 20 Oct. ieS0,

Isaac Powell. She was a minor child 23 April
1811 when Joseph Eller was appointed guardian.

(1) Joseph Eller^, (Leonard"5, Oeorge Michael*) b. 25 Oct.
1786 in N. C.; d. in Hamilton Co., Indiana in 183a*
(Order Book l, p. 533, 513, 587. Order Book 2, p.
110, l!i5. Order Book 3, p# 216 Hamilton Co., Ind.,
Clerk's office.) He m. 15 Mch. 1811, Rachel Casey,
b. 19 Feb. 1791, who predeceased her husband. (Miami
Co., Ohio Marriages, also see "Portrait and Biog.
Record of Madison and Hamilton Counties, Ind., 1893,
pp. 62L/625.) The family re mo red from Miami Co.,

Ohio to Hamilton Co., Ind. In 1822. The children of
Joseph and Rachel (Casey) Eller were as follows.
(Order Book 3# p# 216 for all but 7, 10, 11 and 12
which are shown in "Portrait and Blog, Rec. of
Madison and Hamilton Counties, Ind., pp. 62L/25*

Order of births not certain in all cases.

(1) Matilda Eller^, m. , 1* Dsc. 1639, David Allison.

The 1850 census of Hamilton Co., Ind. glrs the
family of David 0. Ellison (sic), aged U3, b.
in Ky. and Matilda Ellison, aged 35, 9. in
Ohio, with children as follows.

(1) Mary *. Ellison*’, aged 9, bom in Indiana.

(2) Amand(a) (America) Ellison**, aged 6, bom

in Indiana.

(3) Missouri Ann Ellison , agsd 1, bom in

Indiana.

(li) Living with the family, a boy aged 12
named John Ferguson.

(2) Absolom Eller*4, b. 3 April 1815| d. 18 Hay 1872,

( grave stone ) m. 29 March 1838, Elisabeth
Rooker, b. 25 Jan. 1020 In Indiana; d. 7 May
1881. (Orsvestone) She was a dau. of William
and Phoebe (Iddlngs^ Rooker. Both lie burled
In the Chapel Hill Cem. south of Noblesvllle,
Ind. Absolom Eller owned an 80 acre farm and

was partner with W. W. Rooker in another farm
of 200 acres both in Hamilton Co., Ind. He
was a Whig, then a Republican and a member of
the Methodist Church. The children of Absolom
and Elizabeth (Rooker) Eller were the follow¬
ing; (Order Book 8, p. 9, Hamilton Co. for all
but 1 and 3 which are shown in "Portrait and
Biog. Rec. of Madison and Hamilton Counties,
Ind.") Order of births not certain.

(1) Joseph W. Eller5, b. 1839; m. 1st. 8 Oct.

1862 Eliza Jane Lacy, m. 2nd., 30 Sept.
1880, Sarah C. Flanagan, prob. m, 3rd.,

7 Mch. 1883, Emma Stevenson. Lived in
Nobles ville, Ind. The 1870 census lists
their children as follows; (1) James
Eller**, aged 7 and (2) Dora Eller^*, aged
2, There may have been other children.

(2) James W. Eller^, b. 26 Jan* 18^1; m. 28

Aug. 1867 Martha J. Applegate, b. 18U6
in Ohio who, in I8li7, removed with her
parents, Ebenezer and Rachel Applegate,
to Delaware Twsp* in Hamilton Co., Ind.

He was a Republican in politics and a
member of the Methodist Church, Children,
(1) Frank Eller^, b. 1868; m. 9 Sept.

1890 Grace Black; (2) Maud Eller^, b,

1872; m. 8 Feb. 1905, Charles S. Randall;

(3) Hervey (Harvey) Eller^; (!•) Chauncey
M. Eller^; d. Jan. 1955.

(3) Fernando Cortez Eller'*, b. 18U3 ; d. 22 Dec.

1922; m., 1 Nov. 1870, Lydia E. Sanders,
b. I81±k; d. Oct. 1907, dau. of Joseph
and Clarissa (McVay) Sanders (Saunders),
natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania respect¬
ively and early settlers in Jackson Twsp.
of Hamilton Co., Ind, Fernando C. Eller
enlisted in 1861* in Co. A, 132nd Ind.

Inf. He was a Republican in politics and
a member of the Methodist Church. They
had txit one child who grew to maturity
namely,

1a7

(1) Joseph Ingram Ellsr^, b. 21 Oct.

1675, still livln* near Nobleavills,
In<1« He pi. , 1st., licence Issued,

20 Aug. 1096, Katie Williams, by
whon there was one daughter now
deceased. He n., 2nd., 17 Sept.
1902, Grace Edna Bearer who is
still Hein* and they have child¬
ren, (1) Femahn Marrion Eller ' , b.
20 Jan. 1901a; m., 20 Nov. 1920,

John Estle Huff and have five
children; (2) Joseph Ingram Eller
Jr. b. 29 July 1*07 ; n. 7 April
1935, Dorothy Eunice Brattaln; (3)
Jams Edward Eller , b. It Nov.

19 Hi ; a., 1st., La June 191a 1, Helen
Mary Sharp; m. 2nd., 10 July 191a0,
Lois Wiggins Gardner; (1a) Betty
Jane Eller^, o. 23 March 1^72; n.
July 19E7, Weldon S hick ley; (5)
Amanda Jean Eller^, b. 31 July
1921a; 31 Jen. 191a 2, Clarence

Carson K Irby.

(1a) Marlon Absolom EUer^, b. 15 Nov. 101a5; d.
30 Nov. lfl9? ; a. , 11a March 1071, Mollle
C. Wise. (Ham. Co., Ind. Marriages.)

She was b. 31 July 10*^; d. 30 Juns 1925*
Both lie burled at Newark, Arkansas where
the family lived. They had 6 children.

(5) Hannah Elisabeth Eller'*, n., 0 or 10 Feb.

1002, at age 3?, Asa (Aca) VI 1 Hanson.

(6) Phaob. Sll«r\ b. ?S Mo*. 1853; d. 20 Kay

mi.

(7) John 0. Ell.r ', m., ?6 Huy 1861, Ida Long.

(Ham. Co. Marriages) He was a minor
when his father's estate was distributed.
He 1s said to have lived in Delaware
Twsp. of Ham. Co., Ind. There were four
and perhaps more children.

(8) Alonzo N. Eller'1, b. 186?; 16 Apr. 188?,

Ema Applegate. He was a minor when his

father’s estate was distributed* He is
said to have removed to Missouri*

(3) John Eller^, m. , 2h Dec. 181*0, Celinda Rooker*

He predeceased his father and left two child¬
ren as follows, both of whom were living in
the household of Henry Templin in i860.

(1) Pulaski W. Eller^, m. 10 May 1868, Mary A.

>fyers, b. 181*0; d. 1919 (gravestone).

Their children were, (1) Arthur L. Eller^,
b. 1869; m. 6 April 1901* , Pearl C. Ellis;

(2) Bertha C, Eller^1, b. 1870; m* 1* Jan.
1891, Levi E. Shaw (Hamilton Co., Ind,
Marriages); (3) There may have been other
children.

(2) Phebe C. Eller'*.

(1*) Rachel Eller^, m. David Wilkinson* The 1890
census of Hamilton Co., Indiana gives the
family of David Wilkerson (sic) aged 1*2, b* in
N. C., and Rachel Wilkerson, aged 39> b* in
Ohio, with children as shown below. The i860
census lists the same family with ages advanced
10 years and spells the name Wilkinson.

(1) Mary B. Wilkinson^, aged 12 in 1890, b. in

Ohio .

(2) John W. Wilkinson , aged 10 in 1890, b. in

Ind.

(3) David Wilkinson , aged 7 in 1890, b. in Ind.
(1*) Charles Wilkinson^ (sic), aged 7 in the

i860 census which spells the name Wilkin¬
son.

(9) Harvey Eller^, b. 1820/21 in Ohio; d. 13 June

1891 at Noblesville, Indiana. He m., 29 March
181*1, Latitia Stipp. (Marion Co., Ind* Mar¬
riages) She was bom in Indiana in 1821*. They
had children, according to the i860 Fed. Census
of Delaware Twsp. of Hamilton Co., Ind., as
follows.

(1) Lucinda Eller'*, aged 16.

(2) Clarinda Eller^, aged 12.

(3) Franas (Frances) A. Eller^, female, aged 9.
(1*) William F. Eller^, aged 7*

19

(5) Hadish (?) , female, aged

(6) Lady M. (?)C, female, aged 3.

(7) Union Eller5, b. 1863; m. 6 Oct. 1885,

Lillie William. Ch. Ethyl, Harie, Floyd.

(6) Henry Eller^, b. 1822 in Ohio; m. Sarah Ann,

probably Sarah Ann Hearty . She was born in
1823 in Indiana, He is said to have removed
to Indian Territory, Children shown in the
census of Hamilton Co,, Inrt • which was taken
17 Sept* 1850 and in i860, all bom in Ind.,
were;

(1) Joeeph Eller5, aged 6 in 1850 and 16 in

1860.

(2) Mary Jane Eller , aged 5 in 1850 and 15 in

1860.

(3) Hannah Ann Eller5, aged L in 1850* In

i860 her name is listed as Polly A., aged

5

(li) Luticla Eller , aged h in 1850 and 13 in

i860* She may have been a twin of Hannah.

(5) John W. Eller5, aged 1 in 18^0 and the

same in i860, but probably meaning 11.

(6) Josephine Eller*', aged 7 in i860 census and

listed as a male,

(7) Octavia Eller5, aged 5 in i860 census and

listed as a female,

(9) Homer Eller*', aged 3 in i860.

(7) George Eller^, b. l82lij m. li Kay I8ii8, Lucinda

Stlpp, The family lived in Noblesvllle, Ind.
Accord lrg to the i860 and 1870 census of
Delaware Township of Hamilton Co., Ind, they
had children as follows,

(1) Laura Eller5, aged 11 in i860.

(2) John Eller5, aged 8 in i860*

(3) Johana Eller5, aged 6 in i860,

(li) Jmes Eller5, aged 5 in i860 and 16 in
1870.

(5) Harvey Eller , not shown in i860 but aged

Ui in 1870.

(6) Absolom (T) Eller**, aged 3 in 1860 and 12

in 1870.

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(7) Nellie Eller , aged 8 mo. in i860 and 10
in 1870.

(8) Margaret Eller^, aged 8 years in 1870.

(9) Cassius Eller^, aged 3 years in 1870.

(8) William Eller**, d. unmarried.

(9) Jacob Eller**, b. 1830; m. 29 May 1856, Susan
Catherine West, aged 27 in i860. He is said
to have removed to Indian Territory. Their
children, according to the i860 and 1870 census
were;

(1) Frances Eller", female, aged 6 in i860 and
16 in 1870.

(2) Margaret Eller'*, aged h in i860 and 1 h in
1870.

(3) John W. Eller , aged 1 in i860 and age un¬
readable in 1870 census.

(U) Rosa Eller^, aged 8 in 1870.

(5) James Eller^, aged 6 in 1870.

(10) Elizabeth Eller**, b. 1832; m., 22 Feb. 1852,
Francis M. Beck and lived in Indianapolis, Ind.

(11) Salinda Eller*1, b. 1B3U ; n. 6 June 18£0, Freeman
Farley.

(12) Joseph Eller , youngest son. He is said to have
died young.

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(5) Sarah (Sally) Eller , (Leonard , George Michael ), m. ,
20 Mch. I8ll, Joseph Byrket (Burkit). (Miami Co.,
Ohio, Marriages) Their children, according to her
father’s estate distribution. Order Book 1, p. 326
in which the name was spelled Burgitt, were:

(1) Levi Byrket (Burgitt)**.

(2) John Byrket (Burgitt)**.

(3) Daughter Byrkit (Burgitt)** who m. Moses Wise and

had two children, neither named who, together,
received one fourth part of Sarah (Burgitt)
Eller’s share of Leonar^d Eller’s estate*

(Li) Daughter Byrket (Burgitt) whose son (or husband),
Adam Hittle, received one fourth part of Sarah
(Eller) Burgitt* s share of Leonard Eller’s
estate.

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(6) Herny Eller^, (Leonard^, George Michael^), d. 1021 in

Miami Co., Ohio. He m., 10 July 1811, Sally (Sarah)
Jeffries. (Miami Co. Marriages, also Estate record
#0290, Miami Co., 20 Hec. 1021.) She prob. m. 2nd.,

1 Aug. 1025, Samuel Hoover. There is also another
Henry Eller marriage recorded in Miami Co., vit.

Henry Eller who m. Molly Bench, 1^ Nov. 1016. This
second Ht«nry Eller ouite certainly was the son of
Herny and Fronlca Eller who lived in n ay ton, Ohio,
Montgomery Co. and a grandson of Henry and Elitabeth
(Bigler) Eller of Frederick Co., Md. (See Family I
herein.)

The children of Henry' and Sally (Jeffries) Eller,
according to his father's estate distribution were:
(Also see Henry Eller Estate *0200, Miami Co., Ohio,
dated Dec. 20, 1021.)

(1) Mary (Pollv) Ellei^, m. Joseph Totman.

(2) Enos Eller^. He nay have oeen the Enoch Eller

of later records.

(3) Isabella Elleru, probably died young.

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(7) Mary Lucinda Eller, (Leonard , George Michael ) b. in

North Carolina in 1702; d. in Lawrence Twsp. of
Marion County, Indiana ir 1863, aged 01 years. She
was married twice, the first tine in North Carolina
to Francis Flamigtr. who was bom in Maryland and
moved first to North Carolina, then to Miami Co.,

Ohio and In 1021 to Lawrence Township of Marlon Go.,
Indiana where he entered 00 acres of land near
Millersvllle . She married 2nd. James North who was
born in North Carolina, emigrating later to the Still¬
water River Country in Ohio and in 1021 to Marion
Co., Indiana where he was a farmer but not a land
owrwr. (Hist, of Indianapolis and Marion Co., Ind.
by Berry L. Sulgrove, 1001, p. 510.)

The estate settlement of Leonard Eller, father of
Mary Lucinda Eller first refers to this daughter as
Lucinda North then as Mary North indicating that her
full given name was Mary Lucinda or Lucinda Mary.

The children of Mary Lucinda Eller and her first

husband, Francis Flannigan were; (Hist, of Indianapo¬
lis and Mail on Co., Ind* by Benj. L. Sulgrove, 1881*,

P# 48.)

(1) James Flannigan4.

(2) John Flannigan^. .

(3) Elizabeth Flannigan .

(1*) Sarah Flannigan^.

(5) Peter Flannigan^.

(6) Leonard Flannigan4, m. Amelia Mitchell and

located in Hamilton Co., Ind. and later re¬
moved to Marion Co., Inc.

(7) Francis F. Flannigan^.

The children of Mary Lucinda Eller and her second
husband, James North. (Ibid, p. 51*3)

(8) Son Northr, given name not found.

(9) Son North4, given name not found.

(10) Son North^, given name not found.

(11) Daughter North^, given name not found.

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Jacob Eller , (Leonard , George Michael ) m. 28 April

1822, Elizabeth Byrket (Burklt). He survived his

father. One son was;

(1) Harve B, Eller^, b, 3 Sept. 161*1; d. 18 July

1911* at Fishers, Delaware Twsp*, Hamilton Co.,
Ind. (Death certificate Marion Co., Ind.) He
probably m. , 25 April 1867, Ellen Myers.

(2) There probably were other children.

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JACOB ELLER

Son, probably, of Georg® Michael Eller, Family I, p. 6
FAMIU IV

JACOB ELl£R^, (George Michael Eller ) called "one of
ray youngest children" in the will of George Michael Eller
may hare been and probably was the Jacob Eller of Bote tort
County, Virginia. He died there between 10 May 1830 when
his will was written and the October court of 1930 when it
was proved. (Will Book E, p. 12L, Botetort Co., Va.) Jacob
Eller’s will referred to his "beloved wife" without nameing
her and mentioned his sons John and Abraham and daughters
Rebecca Eller arv« Susan Garst and Susan Oarst’s children.

His estate settlement by John and Abraham Eller, executors,
dated 2*> Jan . 1RL0, showed eoual payments of $23^.09 to
David Eller, John Eller, Abraham Eller, Magdalene Eller,
Henry Brubaker, F. Garst, P. Himley, Isaac Wertz and Daniel
Peters, the latter five being sons-in-law. (Deed Book F, p.
237, Botetort Co.)

The wife of Jacob Eller was Magdalene as proved tiy a
deed dated 12 June lPOb wherein Jacob Eller and his wife
Magdalene sold land to John Brubaker. (Deed Book 8, p. 1*21,
Botetort Co., Va.) Her maiden name was not found*

Jacob Eller settled in Botetort County in the late
years of the 18th century. He bought U2 0 acres of land on
Craven Creek, a branch of Roanoke River, 2li May 1797. The
deed was dated 18 April 17V9 and recorded 9 Feb. 1802. The
seller was Jacob Test or Teast and his wife Elisabeth and
the price paid $1,166.67. (Deed Book 7, p. 655, Botetort
Co.) Apparently Jacob Eller was a wagon maker as well as
a farmer because on 23 Feb. 1805 he sold to Michael Danner
his household kitchen furniture and mechanical tools and
"the timber for the purpose of making wagons that is now in
s$r shop and in the yard" and also a stud horse and cow.

(Deed Book 9, p. 2, Botetort Co.)

A pertinent bit of evidence Indicating that Jacob
Eller was a member of the George Michael Eller family is the
fact that his son David removed to Hamilton County, Indiana
where sons of Leonard Eller, a known son of George Michael
Eller, settled about 1822 and where Leonard himself died in
1839/19LO. (Portrait and Biographical Record of Madison and

Hamilton Counties, Indiana, 1893, pp, 8 51-8 53 •)

The Federal census of 1810 for Botetort Co,, Va,, there
is no earlier one, shows the family of Jacob Eller and wife
each aged over li5 with one male aged between 16 and 26 and
two males and two females under 16, It also shows the fam¬
ily of David Eller, aged between 26-1j5, with wife of same
age and two female children under 10. The 1820 census shows
families of Jacob and John Eller but not of David who ap¬
parently was then in Indiana. The census of 1830 shows fam¬
ilies of John Eller, aged between 30 and b0 and of Magdalene
Eller, aged between 60-70, she doubtless being the widow of
Jacob Eller, deceased. Living with her was one male and one
female person each aged between 20-30 and two other children,
ore a male and the other a female, each aged between 15 and 20.

The writer acknowledges with thanks the records of the
descendants of Jacob" and Magdalene Eller that were supplied
to him by Rev, Henry C. Eller, R,F,D, #2, Box U02, Salem, Va.
an ordained Brethren pastor, Mr, Eller has collected the
records of nearly all of the descendants of Abraham^ and
Mary (Wertz) Eller.

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The children of Jacob and Magdalene Eller were, order
of birth in all ca^es not certain,

(1) David Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael^) b., say about

1783; m, Anna Brucker (probably meaning Anna Brubaker,
dau, of John and Anna (Myers) Brubaker who removed
from Lebanon Co,, Penna, to Botetort Co,, Va, in I80I4.
and on 12 June of that year bought land from Jacob
Eller), David Eller is shown in 1810 Federal Census
of Botetort Co, as being aged between 26-1^5 with wife
of same age and two females both under 10, He is not
shown in any later census of Botetort Co,, Va, He
apparently was living in Franklin Co., Va, in 1822
when on 20 Feb. of that year he deeded land to John
Eller, his brother probably.

The book ” Portrait and Biographical Record of
Madison and Hamilton Counties, Indiana 1883”, pp. 62h-
25, gives a biographical sketch of Andrew Eller^, son
of David Eller-^, saying that he accompanied his
father, David, from Roanoke, Va, (Roanoke was then in
Botetort Co.) first to Ohio and later to Hamilton Co.,
Indiana, Regretfully no other children of David

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Eller were mentioned but Va. census records show
there were others, some of them older than Andrew.

The biographical sketch of Andrew Eller\ the 1050
census, Ham. Co., In*. mandate records and family
records show the following.

(1) Andrew Eller\ son of Darid and Anna Brucker, or
Brubaker, Eller, b. in or near Roanoke, Va. in
lfilQ; 1096} pi., 1st. It Feb. 1PL1, Elisabeth
AuchenbAck, b. in Pa. In 1016; d. 1666; *.,
2nd., 16 Sept. 1669, Hannah Mari ah Sroeltser; *.
3rd., 12 June 1090, Elisabeth Bright, The
licence for 3rd. marriage states that Andrew
Eller was aged 71 and was a son of Darid Eller
and Anna Brucker, prob. meaning Anna Brubaker.

Their children were, ( same references);

(1) Henry ELLer*’, b. 10li2, a Civil War soldier.
(?) fUry M. Eller*’, b. 1*13; ■» * Oct. 1863,

Alfred Lee man.

(3) Sarah Eller^, b. 1BL5; *• 20 March 186L
George W. rvinn.

(1») P»t.r Ellar5, b. 22 April iei7; <i. 8 Heh,
1920, aged 72; m., 15 April 1066, Barha
(Barbara) E. Murray, b. I8ti7 ; d., U Ort.
1913, aged 66. (Hamilton Co., Ind. Death
Records.) Four of their children were
(1) Wilson Eller^, b. 1066; m., licence
dated 29 Dec. 1007, Elisabeth Knapp; (2)
Della Eller^, b. 1669, m., licence dated
20 Aug. 1007, David Knapp; (3) Andrew
Eller*, b. 1067/60; (Ji) Fanny Eller^, b.
Oct. 1069.

(5) Lydia Eller'', b. 10149; m., 29 July 1066

Jacob E. Coffman. (Hamilton Co. Mar¬
riages)

(6) John Eller , b. 29 Dec. 1051; d. 27 June

1930; m., 5 Jan. 1871, Ann Overdorft, b,
28 Jan. 1652; d. 16 Dec. 19U. She was
a dsu. of George and MAry (Stelchleman)

Overdorft. He was a member of the German
Baptist Brethren Church.

Their children were:

(1) Nora Eller^.

(2) William Henry Eller^, b. 21 Oct*

1871; still living Jan. 1957; m, 3
Mch. 1890 Ani Iuella (Lousetta)
Young, b. 14 Sept. 1869; d. 8 June
1936. They had 4 children namely,
(1) Elsie Cleo Eller^, b. 23 Nov.
1890; m., 19 Jan. 1913, Berlin C.
Newby, divorced in 1915; m., 2nd.*
17 Oct. 1942, John Clifford Boden,
b. 11 Oct. 1876; d. 9 March 1952.

By the first marriage there was one
dau., Ruby Clarice Newby, b* 7 Dec*
1913 who m., 23 Dec. 1939, Ernest
Carl Eiler (sic), b. 12 Dec* 1909.
No children by 2nd, marriage. The
widow lives presently at Arcadia,
Indiana; (2) Ethel Cerene Eller^;

(3) Clarence Ray Eller^; (4) Edna
Merce Eller^.

(3) Charles Franklin Eller , m. Susan

Sumner and had 5 children. (Por¬
trait and Biog. Rec. of Hamilton
and Madison Counties, Ind., pp. 624,
625.)

(4) Jesse Peter Eller , deceased; m., 5

March 1899, Elnora Allie Hankley
and had children as follows, (1)
SorJ , b, 20 Aug. 1901; (2) Son^,
b. 5 Nov. 190i»; (3) Donald Eller7,
b. 14 Oct, 1914; (4) Dorothy V,
Eller^, b. 18 Apr. 1916; (5) Dau*^,
b. 6 Oct. 1918.

(5) Nora May Eller^, deceased.

(6) Flora Ellen Eller^, deceased, m., 4

Aug. 1907, Frank Landis and had
three children,

(7) Edward Emerson Eller^, b. 21 Oct*

1887, m., licence dated 4 Oct. 1906,
Laura Jack and had 2 children one

of who® wa s Vinita Eller^, b. 23
Hot. 1007*

(7) Elisabeth C. Eller*.

(2) Jacob Eller\ (Jacob?, George Michael*), probably a son.

The 1820 census of Bote tort Co., Va. shows a Jacob
Eller, aged between 26 and 1*5, with wife of sane age
and 3 Bales aged between 10 and 26 and 11 ring In the
sane family a female, aged orer US who nay hare been
his wife’s mother. He Is not shown In the 1830 cen¬
sus nor in a ny of the settlement papers of Jacob
Eller Sr's estate which casts some doubt on relation¬
ship between the two.

(3) Sarah (Salome) Eller^, (Jacob?, George Michael*), b.

1766; d. 1882; ■•, about 1810, as his second wife,
Henry Brubaker, b. 5 Oct. 1775; d. 18 Nor. 181*8, son
of John and Anna (Hyera) Brubaker. The first wife of
Henry Brubaker was Elisabeth Flory whom he married
?U March WS.

Children of Henry Brubaker and his first wife Elisa¬
beth Flory weret

(1) Christian Bmbaker, b. 29 Use. 1795*

(2) Jonathan Brubaker, b. 2U June 1797; n., 23 Aug.

1818, Barbara Crist, b. 17 March 1788.

(3) Jacob Brubdcer, b. 25 June 17^9; m. 1* Apr. 1820,

Susana Grlsso.

(li) Joel Brubaker, b. 17 Mch. I801j d. 7 July 1853>
m., Elisabeth Fisher, b. 1^01 ; d. 1865.

(5) Joseph Brubaker, b. 6 Oct. 1802; a. Catherine

Hersberger. Family remored to Tennessee.

(6) Peter Brubaker, died young.

(7) Henry Brubaker, b. 6 May 1806; d. 2 June 1880; a.

1st. Susanna Fisher, b. 17 Nor. 1802; d. I* Sept.
I87i*; a. 2nd., Lucy Srdth, b. 1 Jan. 1813; d. 7
Jan. 1907.

(8) Catherine Brubaker, b. 29 Sept. 1808; a., I* Mot.

1838, Daniel Barnhart. Daniel Barnhart was
married twice and had a total of 22 children.

His farm adjoined the Jacob Eller farm In
Bo te tort Co., Va.

(9) Nicholas Brubaker, b. 1809; d. young.

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Children of John Brubaker and his second wife, Sarah

*3

Eller , were:

(10) John Brubaker , b. 21 July 1811; d. 8 June 1897;
m. Susanna Flory, b. 11 Jan. 1816; d. 1 Aug.
1886. They had a family of 10 children as
follows; (1) Samuel F. Brubaker^; (2) Henry L.
Brubaker^; (3) Jacob 0. Brubaker^; (U) Mary F,
Brubaker^; (9) Hanna C. Brubaker-^, b. 29 Aug,
181*2; d. 20 Dec. 1901*; m., as his 2nd. wife,
John W. Eller, b. 26 May 1836: d. 7 March 1899,
youngest son of Abraham Eller-% (Jacob^, George
Michael Eller1); (6) Sallie Brubaker^; (7)
Magdalene Brubaker^; (8) Daniel R. Brubaker^,
b. March 12, 18 90; d. 19 June 1928; m. Nannie
C. Eller^, b. 11 Oct. 1891*; d. 9 May 191*9. dau.
of Abraham Eller^; (9) Elizabeth Brubaker^;

(10) John Y. Brubaker^.

(11) Nancy Brubaker^, b, 1813; m. Christian Wertz.

(12) Benjamin Brubaker^, b. 1819; d. 1891; m. 12 Nov.

1839, Mary Garst,

(13) Magdalena Brubaker^, b. 1818; d. 1892.

(ll*) Abraham Brubaker^, b. 6 Sept. 1820; d. 2l* June 18-

(19) Isaac Brubaker , b. 9 Sept. 1829; d. 19 Apr. 1897.

(16) Elias Brubaker^, b. 29 June 1827; d. 29 Jan. 1899;

m. Susanna 3eckner. (Their oldest child m.
Abram Eller who went to Ohio and the 3rd. son
or child married the half sister of Christian
Eller^ (John W#^, Abraham^, Jacob^, George
Michael Eller1).

(17) Tobias Brubaker^, b. 9 Sept. 1828; d. 19 Apr.

l897. ,

(18) Moses Brubaker , b. 26 Dec. 1831; d. 23 Oct*

1901*; m. Susan Gris so, b. 9 Aug. 1838.

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(1*) Susanna L* Eller , (Jacob , George Michaelx), m. , 28
Dec. 1809, Frederick Garst Jr.

(9) Elizabeth Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael^), m. , 7 Dec.
18U*, Daniel Peters*

(6) John Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael1), called Johnnie
Eller, b. between 1790 and 1800; m. , 19 Feb. 1818,

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( Bote tort Co., Va. Mar.) Catherine Brubaker, b. 2 h
March 179lt, dau. of John and Anna Brubaker. He was
one of the executors of his father, Jacob’s estate.

Children of John Elle r" and his wife Catherine
Brubaker were:

(1) George Eller who married and had a son David

Eller. Family lived in Floyd Co., Va.

(2) Jacob Eller1*

(3) John B. Eller who married twice and lived first

in Franklin Co., Va., later moving west. He
had a family of 7 children by first marriage
and 1 by secorr! , namely (1) Joel Eller6, died
young j (2) Mary Catherine Eller6, b. 12 Dec.
]P53j d. 7 Nov. 1928; m. Isaac Benjamin Peters,
b. 2 Jan. 18J*8; d. 7 Feb. 1890. One son, Wood¬
ford F. Peters became president of McPherson
College in Kansas; (3) Bettie Eller6; (la )

Salome Eller6; (5) Susan Eller6; (6) Elisa
Eller6; (7) Hettie Eller6, m. Forrest Herttell
of Dayton, Ohio; (8) John Eller6, Independence,
Mo., child by second marriage.

(1») Jo.1 W. Ell.r^, b. 25 Hot. 1825; d. 26 D*c. 1902j
B. Martha E. b. 12 April 1827; d. 12 Dae. 1911a.
Children were, (1) Clay Eller6 who was a mer¬
chant in Roanoke, Va. and (2) Ztmn Eller6.

(5) Catherine Eller1*, a. Mr. Johns and had two

daughters.

(6) Levina Eller1*. m. Mr. Danner.

(7) Abraham Eller*, removed, according to family

records, to Kansas. He married and had a son
George Eller6 who was a Church of the Brethren
Minister. One son of George Eller6 was Jay
Eller^ who was pastor of the Brethren Church
in Wenatchee, Washington. Abraham Eller may
be the same as the Abraham Eller who died in
Madison Co., Indiana 5 Feb. 1901 at the age of
80 years. (Mad. Co., Ind. Death Record)

(8) Ann B. Eller , b. 12 March 1835; d. 22 Oct. 1919;

m. James B. Parker, b. lii Sept. 1829; d. 17
April 1899 and had children, (1) Charles Parker;

(2) Maris sa Parker; (3) Elinora Parker; (U)

John C. Parker; (5) Lavinia Parker, b. U June
1872; m. G. A. Reynolds.

(9) Henry Eller^, d. 22 Aug. 1912. He married and
resided at Cloverdale, Va. His children were,
(1) Nathan D. Eller^, b. 2h Jan. 1866; d. 16
May 1926, Deacon in First Baptist Church at
Lynchturg, Va. where he resided; (2) Willie
Preston Eller^, d. 17 Jan. 1899; (3) Enina
Eller^, m. Walter Yount who became president
of Bridgewater College at Bridgewater, Va.

He resided later at Westminister, Md.

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Nancy Eller , (Jacob , George Michael ) m. , 21: Feb.

1820, Peter Himley (Himelick).

Rebecca Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael^-) m. , 9 June

1832, Isaac Wertz.

Magdalene Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael^-).

Abram (Abraham) Eller^, (Jacob^, George Michael^-) b*

5 June 1801; d. 1^ June 1868; m., 26 March 1831,

Mary (Polly) Wertz, dan. of John Wertz. She was b,

31 March l8lli; d. 13 Dec. 1906 (gravestone) He was
one of the executors of his father Jacob’s estate.

Children of Abraham Eller and his wife Mary Wertz
were:

(1) Anna F. Eller , b. 2 May 1832; d. 30 Dec. 1906;

m. As berry Deaton.

(2) Magdalene Eller^, b. 19 Dec. 1833; d. 23 Aug.

1891: ; m. Joseph Barnhart, b. 23 Oct. 1832; d.

5 Nov. 1900. Children, (1) David M. Barnhart,
b. 19 Dec. 18 £6; d. 10 June 1900; (2) Benjamin
B. Barnhart, b. 21 March 1858; (3) Joseph A.
Barnhart, b. 21: May i860; (1:) Eliza F. Barn-
hart, b. U May 1862; d. 3 Dec. 19ii2; (5) Sarah
L. Barnhart, b. 20 Oct. 1863; d. 17 Jan. 191:5;
(6) Margaret S. Barnhart, b. 7 Sept. 1865; (7)
Nancy M. Barnhart, b. 18 Nov. 1867; (8) Julia
A. Barnhart, b. 8 June 1870; d. 22 Nov. 19U1:;
(9) Ida V. Barnhart, b. 23 May 1872; m. J. W.
Inkenberry, b. 11 June 1868; (10) Lulu M. Bam-

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hart, b. 28 Feb. I87li ; d. 8 June 19h5; (11)

Cora A. Barnhart, b. 29 Feb. 1876; (12) Dora E.
Barnhart, b. 7 June 1878; «. Grover C. Spradlin.
(3) John W. Eller*1, b. 26 May 1836; d. 7 March 1899;
n. lat. Leah Barnhart, b. 16 Nov. 1836; d. 22
Feb. 1869; w., 2nd., 1 Dec. 1869, Hannah C.
Brubaker, b. 29 Aug. I8b2; d. 28 Dec. 1902.

She was a daughter of John and Susanna (Flora)
Brutaker and a granddaughter of Henry and Sarah
(Eller) Brubaker (supra).

The children of John Vf. Eller by his first
wife, Leah Barnhart, were:

(1) Joseph F. Eller’, b. 29 Jan. 1856; d. 29

Nov. 186b.

(2) Lucy Hadora Eller 0. 28 June 1897; d. 29

June 1921a ; ». 28 Sept. 1876, Joslah E.
Brubaker, b. 8 March 18$4; d. 12 Oct.

1930. They had a family of 9 children.

(3) Mary C. Eller^, b. 18 Dec. 1858; d. 9 May

1925; m. Joseph Fletcher Deaton, b. 25
Sept. 1896; d. 23 Apr. 19bl. They had a
family of 12 children.

(b) Newton D. Eller*', b. 16 Nov. 1862; d. 19

Oct. IQ Lb; m. Lydia Alice Graybill, b. 1
Nov. 1866, and had 5 children, named
Lena, Jonas, John, Lois an^ Kathryn.

Children of John W. Eller and his second wife,
Hannah C. Brubaker;

(5) Virginia Alice Eller'’, b. 18 Jan. 1867; m*

Moaie Neher.

(6) Daniel M. Eller , b. 8 May 1866; m., 29

Nov. 1891, Sarah Ullery, b. 8 March 1867*
Had children, (1) Earl J. I .lar6, b. 10
Apr. 1893; (<0 Maude Eller6; (3) Mary
Eller6; (b) John A. Eller6; (5) Edna
Eller6; (6) Charles A. Eller6; (7) Vir¬
ginia Alice Eller6; (8) Lucy Eller6; (9)
Doe M. Eller6, b. 16 July 1909, d. 15
Aug. 1909.

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(7) Christian E. Eller , b. 10 Jan. 1870; d.

13 May 191*8; m., 2 Sept. 1897, Rebecca
M. Henry, b. 12 Dec. 1877; d. 26 Dec.
19l*l*. Children were, (1) Orien Denton
Eller^, b. 8 Nov. 1898; m. Gladys
Sutphin, b. 9 Feb. 1899 and had children
Katheryn^, Neilford?, Harland? and Janet?;
(2^ Henry Cline Eller^, b. 12 Apr. 1900;
m. Effie May Naff, b., 2 July 1899, and
have children, Wendell Cline Eller?, b.

22 Apr. 1926; Doris Helen Eller?, b. 15
June 1933 and Galen Ross Eller?, b. 25
Dec. 1937. He is a Church of the
Brethem minister at Salem, Va. and com¬
piler of a genealogy of the Eller family
of Bote tort and Roanoke Counties, Va.

(3) Sadie Hannah Eller^, b. 5 Oct. 1902;
m. Carl D. Spangler, b. 1* July 1897; (1*)
Gertrude Jane Eller^, b. 10 Oct. 1901*;
d. 10 Feb* 1927; m. Ernest Lefler; (5)
Ruby Cathyrn Eller^, b. 5 Feb. 1906; m.
Roy M. Foster, b. 15 June 1902; (6) Edna
Frances Eller°, b. 13 Aug. 1908; m., 3
Apr. 191*8 , Paul Snavely; (7) Raymon
Earnest Eller^, b. 31 Mch. 1910; m. Anna
Bell Whitmore, b. 30 Dec. 1915; (8) Paul
Eller^, b, 31 Mch. 191U ; m. Cornelia
Marguis, b. 26 May 1919; (9) John Clinton
Eller^, b. 2 5 Sept. 1916; m. Jesse Mae
Conner, b, 23 Apr. 1920; (10) Lowell
Frederick Eller^, b. 10 Nov. 1926; m.,

6 Feb. 191*8, Mildred Harper.

(8) Benjamin Eller*, b. 31 Oct. 1871; d. 21

Apr. 1921; m. Emma Dillon.

(9) Annie Eller^, b. 2l* July 1876; d. 31 Feb.

1877. .

(10) Samuel H. Eller , b. 12 Sept. 1878; d. li*

Sept. 1879.

(11) Sarah Elizabeth Eller , b. 9 Sept. 1883;

m., 20 Sept. 1905, John H. Wimmer and had
8 children.

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(12) Cora S. Eller5, b. 3 Aug. 1888; 9 July

1913, Robert Bream and have children,

(1) Calvin Eller Bream, b. 11 Dec. 191L;
m. Shirley Shermer; (2) Robert 0. Bream,
b. 18 Sept. 1^16; m. Vera Richardson;

(3) Hugh Clifford Bream, b. 1? Sept. 1919.
(ti) Elite Eller"*, b. <» Dec. 1838; 8. 21 Sept. 1926;
m. John B. Naff, b. 12 July 1836; 8. 7 Aug.

1905. Had children, (1) Christian Naff, (2)
Millie Naff aj»d (3) Martha Naff.

(5) Sarah Eller**, 8. June 1921; Janes Neff and

had children, (1) Lewis B. Neff, b. 11 Feb.

1865; (2) Lee Neff; (3) Mary Luty Neff; (U)

Ida C. Neff; (5) Margie Neff; (6) Susie F.

Neff; (7) Lorn Neff; (8) Naonl B. Neff.

(6) Da rid Eller*1, a. Julia Neff.

(7) Christian Eller**, b. 28 March I81t6; d. 15 June

1866. Killed by accident*

(8) Abram Eller^, m. Salon* Bruoaker, b. 17 Aug.

1850 in Ohio; d. 3 Kay 1927. Children, (1)
Joeiah ElLerc, a. Orpha Brubaker; (2) Elias W.
Eller''.

(9) Amanda Eller4*, died, unmarried, at age about 21.

(10) Berry Eller , b. 7 Aug. 1851; d. 6 July 193®; ■.

Bettie Brubaker and had children, (1) Willie
Eller5, o. L Oct. 1881, (2) Bnory Eller5; (3)
John Slier'', b. 20 Oct. 1892.

(11) Nennie Ellei*1*, b. 11 Oct. 181; d. 5 May 191151

m. 22 Dec. 1*70, Daniel R. Brubaker, b. 12
March 1850; d. 19 June 1928. He was a son of
John Jr. and ^isanna (Plory) Brubaker and a
grandson of John Brubaker and his second wife
Sarah Eller^ dau. of Jacob Eller." Their child¬
ren were, (1) William P. Brubaker, b. 19 Oct.
1P71»; m. Marjorie Littrell; (2) Mary S. Bru¬
baker, b. 25 Dec. 1876; m. W. H. Oden; (3)

John A. Brubaker, b. 17 Oct. 1876; m. Leveine
Dulaney, b. 29 July i860; (!j) Elixa S. Brubaker,
b, 7 Aug. 1880; m. Thoms Littrell; (5) Annie
M. Bruoaker, b. 23 June i860; m. Raymon Jones.

GEORGE ELLER

Son, probably, of George Michael Eller, Family I, p. 6
FAMILY V

GEORGE ELLER , (George Michael Eller ), called "one of
my youngest children” in the will of George Michael Eller^-
may have been and probably was the George Eller who died in
Davidson Co., N. C. before l8Ul* (Deed Book 7, p. 527,
Davidson Co., N. C.) His wife apparently was Susanna. The
Federal Census of Davidson County, N. C. for 18U0 shows a
family, headed by Susanna Eller, aged between 70 and 80,
with no other person listed as living with her. The 1830
census of the same county shows the family of George Eller,
aged between 70-80 living with a wife, aged between 60 and
70. She died, probably, in l8Ul.

George Eller was granted 150 acres of land, 25 Oct.

1786, on Reedy Creek in that part of Rowan Co. that, in
1822, became Davidson Co. He had entered this land 28 Dec.
1778. (Grant 2i*02, Secy, of State’s office, Raleigh, N.C.)
This land was near land that, by two grants dated August 12,
1788 and 18 May 1789, was granted to Peter Eller. Leonard
Eller, on 26 Nov. 1793, also was granted land in what later
became Davidson Co., N. C. Quite certainly George, Peter
and Leonard Eller were brothers and sons of George Michael
Eller, of Family I herein. (See Families I, II and III
herein. )

Some have thought that the George Eller who settled in
what later became Davidson Co. was a son of Christian Eller
who mentioned a son George in his will, (Will Book C, p.

277, Rowan Co.), but George, son of Christian, quite certain¬
ly, was the one who, with his wife Christina, settled in
Grayson Co., Va. before 1790. (See Supra) This being true
then it was the Davidson Co. George, son, doubtless, of
George Michael Eller, who is shown in the Rowan Co. Census
lists of 1790 and later.

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Only three children of George Eller have been proved.
That there were others is implied by early census records
of Rowan County. The census of 1790 shows George Eller
aged over 16 living with a son aged under 16 and four
females, including the female head of the family, ages not
indicated. The Rowan County census of 1800 shows George

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Eller, aged between 26 and US, living with four females,
one over US and three under 16 and with two males both
under 10. In 1010 Oeorge Eller of Rowan County, aged over
US, le shown living with a female, his wife doubtless, also
aged over US and with 2 females and 2 males aged between
16 and 26 and with 1 female aged between 10 and 16 and with
3 females and 1 male all aged under 10. Only a much younger
George Eller, son doubtless of George Eller^, is shown in
the 1020 census' of Rowan County. The 1030 census of David¬
son County (Davidson County was formed out of Rowan in
1022) shows the family of George Eller, aged between 70 and
00, living with a female, his wife doubtless, aged between
60 and 70. The lRJiO census of Davidson County shows a
family of Susanna Eller aged between 70 and 00 living ap¬
parently alone. She doubtless was the widow of George
Eller^. These two later census of Davidson County also
show the family of the much younger George Eller.

In a letter from Estelle Eller Roth rack of Lexington,
Davidson County, N. C., dated 30 Nov. 192L, it la stated
that her Uncle, John Eller^ (George Jr. \ George^, George
Michael^) who was living at ths time said his grandfather
was George Eller and that his grandmother was called Dollle
Eller. She said her own grandfather's name was George
Eller and her grandmother's nams was Mary and that her
grandfather had brothers named Henry and David. David, she
said, removed to Indiana. Her father was Sajmiel F. Eller^
who marrlsd Elisabeth Siceloff. Her letter stated that
her father had told her that he was related to Adolphus
Hill Eller of Winston, Salem, N. C. , also to the Ellars of
Wilkesboro, N. C.

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The known children of George Eller were :

(1) Oeorge Eller Jr.^, b. 1 Mch. 1792; d. 20 July 1069} m.
21 Nov. 101ii, Mary Tokely, b. 22 March 1795} d. 27
Nov. 1071. David Eller was his bondsman. (Rowan
Co. Marriages and Bible records, the latter copied
by the Alexander Martin Chapter of the D.A.R., High
Point, N„ C.) George Eller Jr. was deeded 200 seres
of land by Oeorge Eller Sr. 2 Dec. 1016. This land
was located on the "main road between Salem and
Salisbury, N. C. on the watere of Fry Creek" in what

is now Davidson Co. (Deed Book 21a. p. 130, Rowan
Co.) The will of George Eller Jr.^ was dated in
1865. (Will Book 3, p. 16, Davidson Co., N. C.)

It mentioned his wife Molly Eller and all children
shown below except Hugh, Eliza and Henry, who had
predeceased him. Bible records of the family above
referred to and Davidson Co. marriage records also
supplied pertinent data.

0*)

(5)

(1) Hugh Eller , b. 12 Sept. 1817; d. 25 April

181*3.

(2) Lorenzo D. Eller , b. 11 July 1822; d. 13 June

1901*. He was executor of his father's will.

(3) Eliza ElleA

Heruy Eller^, b. 2h Jan. 1828; d. 29 Aug. 1851a*
John A. Eller^, b. 19 Dec. 1830. He was still
living in Davidson Co., 30 Nov. 1921a, at the
age of 91a, according to a letter from his
niece Estelle (Eller) Rothrack of that date
in the writer’s files. He married, about
1857, Mary Siceloff, b. 7 Sept. 1833; d. 12
Aug. 1921, dau. of Alexander and Eliza (Wyer)
Siceloff. Their children were, (1) Frances
Eller*, b. 27 July 1858; m. , 1879, William
Penn Pickett; (2) Mary Eller*, b. 6 Nov. i860;
(3) Sarah Eller*, b. , 21a March 1863; m* Rev.
Joseph J. Eads.

(6) George W. Eller^, b. 1833. (1850 Fed. Census,

Davidson Co.) It is said that he married and
had a son Charles Eller* and a daughter*, name
not given.

(7) Samuel F. Eller , b. 1838, by family record and

181a0 by 1850 Federal Census of Davidson Co..;
d. 1922; m., licence dated 25 Aug. 1870,
Elizabeth Siceloff, b. 181a1a; d. 1916, dau. of
Alexander and Eliza (Wyer) Siceloff. They
had two daughters, namely, (1) Estelle Eller*;
m. Mr. Rothrack; (2) Daughter Eller*, name not
found who m. , probably , Mr. Thomas •

(8) Susanna H. Eller**, m. Solomon Mack. (See her

father’s will.)

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(9) Laura Eller4, m. Joseph B. Siceloff. (See her
father** will.)

(2) Henry Eller\ b. 1003; *. Elisabeth, b. 1506. (Fed.

Census 1850, Daridson Co.) His father, George Eller
Sr., on 22 Not. 1828 deeded hi* 200 acres of land on
the road leading from ^ansvllle to Salisbury and on
26 Not. 1828 deeded hlai L acres of land on both sides
of Reedy Creek. (Heed Book li, pp. 119 and 126, Derid-
son Co.) Henry Eller sold both of these parcels of
land, 1 Aug. 1832, to Michael Sonars, both parcels
being dlscrioed as located on Ree<$y Creek. (Deed
Book L, pp. 1026/27, Daridson Co., N. C.) On 29
March I8J1I, Henry Eller of DaTidson Co., N. C. deeded
to Jonathan Long of the sane place his undi Tided
share in the tower lands Laid off to the widow of
the late George Eller, deceased. The land was des¬
cribed as containing 158 )/h acres situated on Fry
Creek on the road fro* DansTl lie to Salisbury and as
being the residence of George Eller at the tine of
his death. ObTlously the widow of George Eller Sr.
was deceased at the tine this deed was executed.

Henry Eller^ is shown in the 1850 census of DaTid¬
son County as being aged 17, bom in North Carolina,
liTlng with Elisabeth Eller, his wife doubtless, aged
li3 and with one n.\le child nasrd John F. S. Eller,
aged 2 years. It is said that the only child of
Henry and Elisabeth Eller was;

(1) John F. Stinson Eller\ b. 18L7A8. He Married,
licence Issued in DaTidson Co. 29 Dec. 1873»

Mary Elisabeth Sowers and is said to here had
children, (1) Henry Eller*’; (2) Andrew Eller^
and (3) Saaaiel Eller*’.

(3) Da rid Eller\ He married, 31 J*i. 1815, Sarah Leonard.

(Rowan Co., N. C. mrrlages.) She was a daughter of
Valentine Leonard Sr. who llred on a fans of 201
acres in Da rids on Co., N. C. , situated on the waters
of Tinker and Abbot's Creek. (Deed, dated 22 Sept.

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1821, Book 7, p. 128, Davidson County, N. C.) David
Eller signed the marriage licence of George Eller
and Mary Yoke ley on 21 Nov. 18 U* as bondsman and, ac¬
cording to his grand niece, Estelle (Eller) Rothrack,
mentioned above, removed to Indiana.

(M There probably were other children.

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JOHN ELLER

Son of Peter Eller, Family II, p. 17.

FAMILY 71 , .

3,2 L

JOHN ELLER , (Peter , George Michael ) was bom, prob¬
ably In Frederick County, Maryland, about 1767/9 and died In
Wilkes Co., N. C. In 1023. He married, licence Issued In
Rowan County, N. C. , 5 November 1792, Susannah Kerns (Kern),
who was bom In 1765/66 and died, according to her grave¬
stone in New Hope Baptist Cemetery, N. W. of North Wilkes-
boro, N, C., 10 April 1053, aged 07. Since her first child
was named Simeon It can be Inferred that her father was of
the same name and perhaps the Simeon Kern of Rowan Co., N.C.
mentioned in Vol. 3, Ho. 3, Nat*l. Gen. Society, pp. 1L-22,
and he, In turn, could have been related to Simon Kern of
Frederick Co., Md. found first in the records of the Evan¬
gelical Lutheran Church of that county 31 Oct. 17L6 when,
with others, he was called one of the "Brethren which built
the church in the mountains and in the new town, Frederick
Town "and hie loyalty to the church attested to. (PP b09,
ii^O of the church records at the Maryland Hist. Society In
Baltimore, Md.) Simon Kern m. , 5 April 17L9, Christina
Hoffln (Hoffner) and recorded In the church records the
birth of a son Johan Jacob on 27 Nov. 1752a and of a dau.,
Marie Barbara on 20 Feb. 1758. (Evangelical Lutheran
Church Record, pp. 360, 30 and 52.) Simon Kern died In 1761.
His Administration Bond shows that the administration of his
estate was given 25 Aug. 1761 to Jacob and Christian Hoover
with Michael Romod and Joseph Nanlman as their sureties.
(Admin. Accounts, Vol. 30, 1760-62, Hall of Records, Anna¬
polis, Md.) Simon Kern may have been the Joh. Simon Kern,
aged 25, who came from Germany to Pennsylvania on the ship
"St. Andrew" and took hie oath of allegiance 7 Oct. 17U3*
Later records of the German Reformed Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick County, Md. show
other Kern (Kam) family records. The Oerman Reformed
Church, Vol. 1, p. Ll, records that, on 11 May 1755, Bal¬
thasar and Magdalene Kern christened a child, name not stated,
and on 20 Aug. 1758 christened a son, named Valentine. Other
records of this church show the rmrrlage of Jacob Kern in
1768, wife’s name not stated, (Vol. 1, p. 61), and the mar-

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riage, on 2h May 1785 of Adam Kern and Rosina Willjar, (Vol.
3, p. 111*3), and the marriage, on 1 June 1797, of Jacob
Kern and Marg. Schnook. (Vol, 3, p. lliilt . ) The first child
of Adam and Rosina Kern was Philip Kern, b. 7 Jan. 1786;
bap. 9 Apr. 1787; baptism witnessed by Philipp Klaninger
and his wife Marie Angelica. This Philip Kern baptismal re¬
cord was found on page 780 of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church indicating that one of the parents, most likely the
father, was a member of that church, the mother being a
member of the Reformed Church where her marriage to Adam
Kem took place.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church, p. 566, records that
one Michael Kem and his wife Susanna, on 29 April 1772,
witnessed the baptism of David, son of Johanes and Christina
Oechslein and on page 1*50, the marriage, on 21 Jan. 1781*,
of Susanna Kemin (sic), widow, and Rudolph Naphzinger,
widower. The will of Michael Kam (sic), dated 23 Sept*

1783 and proved 29 October 1783, (Frederick Co., Md. wills),
mentions his wife Susannah with the provision that if she
should die or marry again "the whole of my estate both real
and personal shall be sold and the money thence arising be
equally divided among all my children that may then be
living share and share alike." His wife Susannah and his
"worthy friend John Slifer" were designated executors. The
administration account, dated 12 April 1786, showed an estate
value of 251 pounds and 6 shillings, one item of which was
the proceeds of a sale of 56 acres of land to Adam Kem.

The account was sworn to by Susannah Noffsinger (formerly
the widow of Michael Kam) and John Slifer, executors. (Will
Book G M, No. 1, p. 199, Frederick Co., Md.) The Minute
Book of Frederick Co., 178U-1800, records that "Rudolph
Noffsinger who intermarried with Susannah Kam (sic), ex¬
ecutrix, and John Slifer, executor, of Michael Kam (sic),
late of Frederick Co., deceased, appeared and offered Jacob
Biser and Peter Gaver for their sureties for the balance
due on said administration, March 29, 1787.” Regretfully
the writer could not find a record of the distribution of
this balance (179 pounds, 5 shillings and 6 pence) to Michael
Kam’s heirs, which distribution doubtless would have named
his children. Such a record might show that Michael Kam
(Kem) was a son of Simon and that one of his children was

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Susanna who married John Eller*'

The Evangelical Lutheran Church records of Frederick
Co,, Md, records the birth and baptismal dates of eight
children of another, and younger, Michael Kern whose wife
was Christina,

(1) Jacob Kerr., b, 12 June 1776; baptism witnessed by Jacob

Kobla and his wife Marla Magdena. Date of baptism
not stated, (Page 631* )

(2) Michael Kern, b. h June 1778; bap, 12 June 1778; baptism

witnessed by the chi Id* s parents. (Page 662)

(3) Anna Maria Kem, b. 1 March 1781; bap, 28 Oct, 1781;

baptism witnessed by Gottfried Haller and his wife
Elisabeth. (Page 69h)

(b) Catherlna Kerr, b, 18 Dec. 1761a ; bap, 6 Feb. 1765;

baptism witnessed by "Marie Elisabeth and Charles
King." (Page 778)

(5) Michael Kem, b, 30 June 1786; bap, L March 1787;

baptism witnessed by child's parents* (Page 833)

(6) George Kem, b, 1 Oct, 1788; bap* 12 April 1789; bap*

tlsm witnessed by child's parents* (Page 833)

(7) Wilhelm Kem, b* 7 Sept. 1791; bap. 12 Apr. 1792; bap¬

tism witnessed by Marie Catherine, wife of Oeorge
Frederick Burk. (Page 83b)

(8) Elisabeth Kem, b. 27 Dec. 1793; bap. 28 Sept, 179b;

baptism witnessed by Christian Weber and the child's
parents*

Family tradition says that Susannah Kerns, wife of John
Eller*1 was bom In Oullford County, N. C. on a farm located
near the (Xillford Courthouse battlefield, north of Greens¬
boro tut this writer could find no support for this in the
records* He did find the will of one John Kam (sic) of
Rowan County dated 26 April 1791* In which the testator men¬
tioned his sisters Susanna, Esther, Mary and Ann and brothers
Daniel and Peter* (Rowan Co., N. C. Wills.) It could be
that this John Kam and his brothers and sisters were child¬
ren of Simeon Kem of Rowan County, N. C. and that the
Susanna mentioned in his will was the one who married John
Eller but there Is no proof*

There was one or more Kem (Kerne, Keehn) families in
Rowan County prior to 18 00. Leonard Kem and Peter Keehn

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appear on the Rowan Co., N. C. list of taxables in 1759#
("The Rowan Story” by James S. Brawley, p. 3^U.) A Rowan
Co. deed dated 6 Feb. 1762 shows Conrad Kern to be the at¬
torney and heir of Conrad Michael. (Deed Book 7, p. 39U.)
Another deed in Rcwan Co., dated 5 Feb. 1777 shows Conrad
Kern and John Kerns as being "nephews of Conrad Michael,
late of the German Empire." (Deed Book 8, p. 550 )

The first record of John Eller^ found by this writer
was his marriage licence, issued in Rowan County, N. C., 5
November 1792. The fact that it was issued in Rowan County
indicates that his fiance, Susanna Kerns, was then a resi¬
dent of that county. According to her gravestone in the
New Hope Baptist Church burial ground located about six
miles north and west of North Wilkesboro, N. C. near
Rendevous Mountain, she died 10 April 1853, aged 87 years.
This would make her birth year 1765 or 1766. Her husband
John Eller was buried in the Robert Cleveland burial ground
about a mile beyond on the road to Parsonsville. There is
no marker at his grave. After the death of his wife plans
were laid by his family to place his remains beside hers in
New Hope Cemetery but old residents in the vicinity declare
that this was never done.

John Eller doubtless lived with his father on Reecty
Creek in Rowan County until the latter removed to his Rones
Creek farm in what was then Wilkes but after 1799, Ashe Co.
The surmise is that he was not living with his father when
the 1790 census was taken and did not settle in or near his
father* s farm on Rones Creek until after his marriage. His
first son Simeon was born in Wilkes Co. 7 September 179U
and on 27 Oct. 1795 he witnessed the deed by which his father,
Peter Eller, conveyed 200 acres of land on Rones Creek to
Gabriel Earn. (Deed Book B-l, p. Ij66, Wilkes Co., N. C.)

On 13 April 1795 he and Michael Stuckers (Stoker) helped to
survey 70 acres of land on Rones Creek for Conrad Dick, his
grandfather probably.

On 27 December 1797 fifty acres of land on the east
bank of the south fork of New River at Johnson* s Comer and
running south up the river 20 poles to said Eller’s old
comer etc." was granted to John Eller (Grant No. 1528,

Secy, of State’s office, Raleigh, N. C.)

On 29 July 1799 Betsey and John Eller made application

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to the Court of Pleas of WiUces County for Administration
on the Estate of Peter Eller, ^ceased. They gave John
Bowers and John Kcons for security, these two being bound
In the sum of 800 pounds and qualified as the law required.
Betsey Eller, doubtless was the deceased’s widow and mother
of John Eller. Late in 1799 Ashe County was formed out of
Wilkes County.

The 1800 Federal Census of Ashe County, N. C. shows
John Eller, aged between 26 and h5 with wife of same age and
with one female and two male children all under 10.

The 1810 census shows John Eller and wife each under
US indicating that neither was bom earlier than 1765 and
with one male 16*26, three females 10*16, three females 10*
16 and two males each under 10.

The 1620 Federal Census of Wilkes County show John
Eller and wife both over US with two males, aged between 18-
26, one female, aged between 16*26, one male 16-18, one male
10-16, one female 10-16 and one female under 10.

If the aboee three ceneus records are correct then
both John Eller and his wife 9usannah were bom between
176c and 177li.

The land records of Ashe County reveal the following
purchases and sales of land by John Eller; probably not a
complete list.

29 Jan. 1802 John Eller purchased 200 acres on Otlds
Creek from Joel Gibson paying 185 pounds for same.

(Deed Book A, p. 213*)

9 March 1002, John Eller sold this same land to David
Hank receiving 300 pounds for same. (Deed Book B, p.
JJi7)

7 Aug. L60ti, John Eller sold to Christian Burkard 290
acres of land in Ashe County on Ha’s Creek, a branch of
the south fork of New River, receiving 500 dollars for
same. (Book B, p. 177)

11 Nov. 1006, John Eller purchased from Alexander
Smith about 250 acres of land on the "North side of a
ridge that divides the Sllarey Branch from the River
Branch" paying 200 dollars for same. (Deed Book D, p.
519.)

17 Sept. 1816 and 11 Feb. 1817 John Eller Joined
other heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, in selling land

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that formerly belonged to the said Peter Eller. These
deeds are more fully described under Family II, page 17
herein.

The hone of John Eller in Ashe County, according to the
writer’s uncle, the late Reverend William H. Eller^, (Harvey^,
Simeon4, John^, Peter^, George Michael^) was located on the
east side of the south branch of New River where the bridge
on the main road from North Wilke sboro to Jefferson now
crosses. In his time there was no bridge but only a ford.

The Eller domicile was about one hundred yards east of the
ford and for many years after the occupants vacated it, it
was marked by an old stone chimney and the remains of an
apple orchard that once belonged to the Eller farm.

John Eller, seeking relief from rheumatism, removed to
the lower altitude of Wilkes County in 1816 when, on March
11 of that year, he purchased from Thomas Fletcher three
parcels of land on the north fork of Lewis Fork Creek begin¬
ning at Col. Cleveland’s old comer and running to a dividing
line between Robert Cleveland and John Cleveland, then along
several courses of Benjamin Cleveland’3 old line etc., one
of said tracts adjoining the line of Nathaniel Vannoy*3 land,
the three tracts together containing hSl acres. (Deed Book
K, p. 267, Wilkes Co., N. C.) Here he lived until his death
in 1823. He was buried in the family cemetery of Robert
Cleveland on the road from Parlears to Parsonsville. His
five sons also settled near by and this writer in October
195h, was shown their farms all located north west of Par-
lears, N. C. on the winding road to Parsonsville.

A precious memento of the John Eller household is the
family Bible in which is recorded the birth dates of all but
the youngest child, Mary, of his family. It also records
the birth of Simeon Bumgardner on 8 Jan. 1808. It was print¬
ed in the German language at Halle, Germany in 1770. It may
be the same Bible that George Michael Eller, ^ John’s grand¬
father, willed to his son Jacob because on page 17 is writ¬
ten the words " Jacob Eller his Bible." There is also written
on page 15 of the Vorrede, or preface, the words "The holey
Bible Peter Eller." (See George Michael Eller’s Will on
page 7 herein.) Of course these bits of writing, all in
English, could have been placed there by later members of

the family. The Bible is now owned by Mr. wade Eller of
Warrensville, Ashe County, North Carolina, son of Jacob
Eller^, (Davld^, Jacob3, Peter^, George Michael*). Regret¬
fully it records nothing about John Eller or his wife. The
Simeon Bumgardner whose birth on 8 Jan. 1808 is recorded in
the old Bible very probably was a son of a sister of John
Eller who had married, probably, James Bumgardner. Proof
of this however has not been definitely established.

The children of John Eller and his wife Susannah Kerns
were i ]

(1) Simeon Eller*, (John1, Peter^, George Michael*) b. in

what is now Ashe Co., N. C., 8 Sept. 179ii; d. , in
Wilkes Co., N. C., 19 June 1690. He , licence
issued in Wilkes Co. 16 April 1*17, Fanry McNlel\
b. 12 Jan. 1799; d. li Oct. 1896. She was a dsu. of
James McNiel^, (Rev. George*). Both lie burled in
the New Hope Baptist Cturch yard on the road fro*
Parlears to Parsonvllle in Wilkes Co. See Family
XII, page 177 herein.

(2) David £ller\ (John^, Poter^, George Michael*) b. 11

April 1796; d. 18 March 1870. He was twice married
firstly, 18 Oct. 1819, to Tabltha Judd, b. 27 June
1803; d. 27 March I8ii7; and seoonrlly, 27 Feb. I8ii8,
to Mrs. Mary A. Iyons, b. 19 Dec. 1822 whose child¬
ren by her first husband were Alhora (Elvira) and
David. He removed first, in 1828, to W^rne County,
Indiana and from there, about 1838, or 1839, to Jef¬
ferson Co., Iowa where he lived as a farmer until his
death.

Children of David Eller4 and his first wife Tabltha
Judd we ret

(1) Mary Eller , b., in Wilkes Co., N. C. 20 Sept.

1*20, was still living in 1879. She m. first,

1 Sept. 1836, in Wayne Co., Indiana, George
Koons who died, 1839 in Jefferson Co., Iowa.

He was a son of John Koons1, (Gasper^, Davalt*).
She married 2nd., 8 August I8ii2, Clalbom C.
Tinsley, b., in Amherst Co., Virginia, 27 0*c.
1807; still living In Jefferson Co., Iowa in

1879. When about 9 years of age he removed
with his family to Kentucky* In 1839 he re¬
moved to Illinois and in 181*1 to Jefferson Co*,
Iowa where he was a successful farmer, member
of the Baptist Church and a Democrat in politics.

Children of Mary (Polly) Eller^ and her first
husband George Koons were: (See Koons Family
p* 166 herein. )

(1) Eliza Kocns^, b. 1837* She probably was

the Eliza Koons who m., 8 Sept. 1859,

Jacob L, Myers. (1850 Fed. Census of
Jefferson Co., Jefferson Co., Iowa Mar¬
riages.)

(2) Martha Koons , b. 1839. She probably was

the Martha Koons who m., 2l* Feb. 1856,
Brinton Hughes, (1850 Fed, Census of
Jefferson Co. and Jefferson Co., Iowa
marriages. )

Children of Mary (Polly Eller) Koons and her
second husband Claiborne C. Tinsley:

(3) David E. Tinsley^, aged 6 in the 1850

census. He was a farmer in Jefferson Co.
(1*) Alma Tinsley^, aged 5 in the 1850 census.

(5) Mary J. Tinsley^, b. 2l* Oct. 181*7; d. 20

July 1917; m., 8 Aug. 1872, James Allen
Eller6, b. 11 March 18U7; d. 12 Jan.

1929. He was a son of John^ and Jane
(Montgomery) Eller', (Simeon^, John^,

Peter , George Michael^). See family
XIV, page 2 52 herein.

(6) Zachary T. Tinsley^, aged 6 months in the

1850 census. Farmer Jefferson Co., Iowa.

(7) Henry F. Tinsley^.

(8) Alice Tinsley^, died in infancy,

(2) Jesse F. Eller ", b. 12 Nov. 1822; d. , June 1881*,
near Council Bluffs, Iowa. He m., 22 Feb.

181*1*, Lovisa (Louisa) Marion, b. 1818. Their
children were:

(3)

tt>

(5)

(6)

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(1) David S. Eller , aged 5 in the 1050 census

of Jefferson Co., Iowa.

(2) Avey T. Eller^ (son), aged lx In the 1050

census.

(3) Tabitha J. Eller^ (dau.), aged 2 In the

1050 census.

(L) Willi. ik Washington Eller , aged 1 in the
1050 census. He was appointed U. S.
Marshall for the State of Iowa by Presi¬
dent Grover Cleveland.

(5) W. Mack Eller^', aged 1 in the 1050 census.

He was a twin with next above.

(6) There have beer other children.

Ilia* Ellery b. 2 3 Dec. .... before the
family left North Carolina.

Elisabeth Filer , b. Sert. 1027.

Clarissa Eller**, b. 15 May 1029; *. , 18 Dec.

10Jj9 In Jef fersor Co., Iowa, Wlllla* C. Marlon,
b. 1926.

John EllerC, b. 6 Nov. 1832 In Wayne Co., Ind.,
a. , 27 July 1052i, Mary Jane Parnell. Both
lived and died In Atlantic, Cass Co., Iowa.

No children.

The one child of David Eller and his second wife,
Mrs. Mary A. Lyons, was*

(7) Alice EllerC, b. 29 March lfil.9 1 ■. 31 n»c. 1*68,
Marlon Tracy, b. ISM; d. 1930. He was a son
of Rev. R. M. Tracy, a Baptist Minister of old
Maryville, Wapello Co., Iowa, They had 7 child
ren as follows, (1) Robert E. Tracy**; (2) Frank
Tracy^; (3) Grace Tracy^; (l) Arthur w. Tracy^;
(5) Olive Tracy ^ j (6) a daughter** who k. C. D.
Laughlln; (7) Nettle Tracy, died young.

(3) John Eller Jr. , (John*, Peter*, George Michael*) t.

17 March 1790; a., licence Issued In Wilkes Co., N.C.
20 April 1020, Elisabeth Pay Vannoy, b. 29 Oct. UQb|
d. 2li Aug. 1068. She was a dau. of Jesae Vannoy'
(Nathaniel^, John^, Francit?, John*) and hla wife Mrs
Mary Shepherd, bom Mary Kilby, dau. of Wllllaa Kilby
and hla wlfa Mary Ann Tolda. Family lived on Lewis

Fork Creek in Wilkes Co,, N, C,

Children of John Eller^ and his wife Elizabeth Ray
Vannoy were :

(1) Susanna Eller m. William Eller^ son of Jacob

Eller^, (Peter^, George Michael^-). She is said
to have lived to the great age of more than
100 years and to see one of her daughters at¬
tain the age of 80 years* The family removed
to Tennessee,

Children of Susanna and William Eller were:

(1) Elizabeth Eller6.

(2) Daughter6, name not found.

(3) There may have been other children.

(2) Mary Eller^, m., licence dated 12 March 181*2 in

Wilkes Co., David Miller,

(3) Fannie Eller'’, m. , licence dated 8 Feb, 1839 in

Wilkes Co,, Eli McNiel, son of James McNiel^
(Rev. George^*) and his wife Mary Shepherd.

(See McNiel family, p, 1*05 for children.)

(1*) Catherine Eller^.

(?>) Alpha (Althea) Eller'*, b. 1830. She died unm,

(6) Sarah Caroline Eller^, b., ll* June 1831; d., 27

May 1919, aged 87 years, 11 months and 13 days.
She m., 18 Jan. 181*8, Jesse Yates, b. I* March
1817; d. 6 June 1898, aged 81 years, 3 months
and 2 days, son of John and Elizabeth (Cleve¬
land) Yates. Both lie buried in the Robert
Cleveland Cemetery on the road from Parlears
to Parscnsville, N. C. Children, if any, not
identified.

(7) Clarissa (Clara) Eller'*, b. 183U,

(8) David Eller-’, b. 1836, Capt. in Confederate Army,

m. Ellen Colvard, Family lived near Tracy City,
Tennessee, He probably was the David Eller
shown in the i860 census of Ashe Co,, N. C,,
aged 2l* with wife Ellen, aged 27 and children
(1) Alice Eller^, aged 2 and Albina Eller^,
aged 3 months. Living in the same family was
Elizabeth Eller, aged 22, his sister probably.

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(9) Elizabeth Eller , b. 1838.

(10) Jesse Eller , b. lPliO.

(11) Harrison Eller^, b. 1812.

(12) Martha Eller'', b. l8Ui, twin of next following,

m, Mr. Prawn.

(13) Matilda Eller^, o. , twin of next above.

(lij) Henderson Eller'', b. 1818. He renoved to Tenn.

(Ii) Hachel Eller^*, (John^, Peter^, George Michael*) b. 12

Apr. 1800; d. 26 Dec. 1890, (Bible record, gravestone
says b. 20 Jan. 1*01) »., 22 Aug. 1820, licence dated
19 Aug. 1820, in Wilkes Co., John McNiel', b. 30 Jan.
1796; d. 21 Jar. 1877, (James*, Rev. OeorgeM. See
McNlel Family herein. The ten children of Rachel
Eller^* and her husband John McNiel^ were i

(1) William H. McNiel, b. 1 0 T 1 : m. 10 March l8k)9

Sarah y, b. 16?^. The 1*90 census of
Wilkes Co., N. C. lists him, aged 29 with wife
Sally, aged 29 and with children as follows.

(1) Mary I. McNlel, aged 6.

(2) Nancy McNlel, aged 2. She *• her cousin

Jesse KcKlel son, probably, of John.

(3) Byron McNlel, aged 1.

(ii) Jesse McNlel, aged 29 living with the

family in 1890. Who he was la not clear
but probably was a cousin, son of Larkin
McNlel, deceased.

(9) Probably other children.

(2) Franklin McNiel; m. Hebecca McNlel. A grandchild

is Hon. Johnson J. Hayes, Judge of U.S. District
Court, Wllkesboro, N. C.

(3) Alfred McNiel, b. 1825; ■ 6 Nov. 1811, Franklin

Matilda Vannoy, o. 26 Sept. 1829; d. 1902, dau.
of Jesse Vannoy r, (Nathaniel^, John-, Franc ie*,
John*). For children, see page 370.

(Ii) Peter McNiel, b. 26 Aug. 1827; d. lb Feb. 1909;
m., ii Feb. 1859, Maryann B. Phillips, b. 17
Aug. 1639; d. 21 Feb. 1921. She was a dau. of
C. R. Phillips who was accidentally killed 7
April 1865. The name was spelled McNiel in the
parent1* Bible which was the ancestral spelling.

A later Bible changed the spelling to McNeill
and this form was used by all the children.

Both Bibles were owned by the late Mrs. Edward
Everett Eller, North Wilkesboro, N. C. The
fourteen children of Peter McNiel and his wife
Maryann B. Phillips were:

(1) Phineas Gaither McNeill (McNiel) b. 20 Nov.

1855; d. 31 Dec. 1918; m. Alice McMillan,
b. 18 57/ 58; d. 16 June 1930, aged 72.

She was a dau. of Captain Andrew and
Cynthia (Reeves) McMillan. Children,

(1) John Reeves McNeill; (2) Jennie
McNeill; (3) Andrew Benjamin McNeill;

( h ) Dora McNeill; (5) Charity Lorena
McNeill; (6) Flora Della McNeill; (7)

Roger Lester McNeill; (8) Peter Thurman
McNeill now living with wife and 10 child¬
ren at Jefferson, N. C®

(2) Nancy V. McNeill (McNiel), b. 23 Nov. 18 57;

d. 21 June 1862®

(3) Julia Ere line McNeill (McNiel), b. 6 Nov.

1859; m. Mack Abscher and had children,

(1) Darius Abscher; (2) Nora Abscher;

(3) Mabel Abscher; (1*) Agnes Abscher;

( 5) Claude Abscher*

(1*) Orlando H. McNeill (McNiel), b. 19 Sept.
1861; d., at Hastings, Nebr. and buried
there 31 July 1887.

(5) Peter Rufus McNeill (McNiel), b. 2h May

1861* ; m. Vina Faw.

(6) Laura (Leora) B. McNeill (McNiel), b. 18

Apr. 1866; d. 27 March 1938, m. Joseph
Black. Had a dau. who m. J. 0. Benfield.

(7) John Franklin McNeill (McNiel), b. 11 Apr.

1868; d. at Hastings, Nebr. and buried
there 21 Nov. 1887.

(8) Joseph Walter McNeill (McNiel) b. 21 June

1870; removed to the west and died there
31 Jan. 1895.

(9) Elihu Alexander McNeill (McNiel), b. 18

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July 1872; m. Mary Davis and had (1)

James Davis McNeill; (2) Edward Alexander
McNeill who died urjr-arrier5.

(10) Rachel Allas McNeill (McNiel), b. 26 Sept.

I87li; d. ?6 Aug. lP9li • She died unnar-
ried.

(11) Litzie Rebecca McNeill (McNiel), b. 2 Apr.

1879; d. c May 19%; r. 30 July 1896,

Edward Everett Slier . (Jesse F.^,

Sineon^, John^, Peter^, George Michael1),
b. 12 Feb. 1870; d. 18 Oct. 1955. He
was a merchant and lived in North ailkes-
boro, N. C* Their three children are,

(1) Mary Elisabeth Eller7, b. 10 Sept*

1897; *. William Marvin McCully and has
two children named Willies. Marvin McCully
Jr. and Edward Eller McCully; (2) Ernest
McNeill Eller7, b. ?3 Jan. 1903, Rear
Admiral U.S.N* retired, now serving as
Director of Engineering at Bucknell
University. He a., 27 May 1926, Agnes
Fogel Pfohl and has two children vl*.

P*ter KeBiill Pfohl Eller®, b. ?li Aug*

1937 and John Christian Eller , b. 29
Nov. 19^0; (3) Franklin Peter Eller7, b.
March 10, 1905; m. Fthel Ward and have
children, Peter Eller^ and Edward E.

Eller°. (See Eller Fa*. XVI, p. 277 herein.)

(12) William Heggie McNeill (McNiel), b. 12

April 1879; d. 1C Jan. 1925; *. Mollie
Evelyn Eller^, (Jesse F.r, Simeon*, John?,
Peter^, George Michael1), b. 11 May 1881.

He was a merchant In North Wllkesboro,

N. C. Had children, (1) Frank McNeill;

(2) Frances McNeill, twin with Frank;

(3) Margaret McNeill; (b) Robert McNeill;
(5) Edward McNeill who d. young*

(13) Benjamin Avery McNeill (McNiel), b. 10 July

1681; d. U July 1939 at Los Angeles,
California. He married Maude Phipps and
had one dau., Ruth McNeill, who did not

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marry.

(lit) Wiley Emit (Emmet) McNeill (McNiel), b. 13
April 1885; d. 26 June 19^9; m. Astoria
McConnell. Children, (1) Willard
McNeill; (2) Mary Lillian McNeill; (3)
Wiley McNeill; (lj) Emmet McNeil.

(9) George McNiel, aged 20 in the 1850 census of
Wilkes Co. His gravestone in New Hope Cem.
reads b. 18 Jan. 1830; d. 20 Sept. 1880. He
m. Susan Vannoy, dau., probably of Enoch.

(6) Mary McNiel, aged 17 in the 18 50 census of

Wilkes Co. She prob. m. David Eller , p. 185.

(7) Nancy Caroline McNiel, aged 15 in the 1850 census

of Wilkes Co. She d. unmarried. Her grave¬
stone in New Hope Cem. reads b. 8 Oct. 1835*

(8) Frances Emeline McNiel, aged 12 in the 1850

census of Wilkes Co. She d. unmarried. Her
gravestone in New Hope Cem. reads b. 18 May
1838; d. 8 Nov. 1912.

(9) Jesse McNiel, aged 9 in the 1850 census of

Wilkes Co. He married his cousin Nancy McNiel,
daughter, probably, of William McNiel*

(10) Laura McNiel, aged h in the 18 50 census. She m.
Mr. Canter.

(5) Absolom Eller^, (John", Peter^, George Michael^) b. 17
Feb. 1803; d. 7 Feb. 1879; m. , 1 March l82lj, licence
dated 28 Feb. I82ii in Wilkes Co., Sally Reynolds, b.
16 Feb. 1805; d. 6 March 1875. The farm of Absolom
and Sally Eller was located on Parlears Creek, Wilkes
Co., N. C.

Children of Absolom Eller^ and his wife Sally Rey¬
nolds were six sons and four daughters as follows:

(1) John Ashley Eller^, b. 3 Dec. 182b; m. 27 Oct.

1852, Bethany Fairchild, They are said to
have had several children.

(2) Aley Eller , b. 12 March 1826; d. 16 July 1892;

m., licence dated 22 April 18^2, Abraham
Wesley Vannoy, b. 6 Sept. 1817; d., in Wapello

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Co., Iowa, 27 Aug. 1691 where family moved in
1869, travelling by wagon to Nashville, Tenn.,
and from there by water down the Cumberland to
the Ohio, thence to the Mississippi and up that
river to Keokuk, Iowa from whence they moved on
to their destination by wagon. Abraham Wesley
Vannoy was a son of Jesse ’'annoy^ (Nathanielu,
John', Francis*5, John*). See Vannoy family VIII,
p. 370 herein for a better recoH of this family.

Children of rley Eller*' an*4 her husoand Abraham
Wesley Vannoy were four sons trd five daughters
as follows:

(1) Anderson Mitchell Vannoy, b.f 13 lBiilt,
in Wilkes Co., N. C.; d., 31 July 1908,
at the hone of his sister, Mrs. Samuel C.
Woodruff in Highland Center, Iowa. He
married, 6 Kay 1866, in Ashe Co., N. C. ,
Adeline Miller, dau. of George W. and
A ley (Hubbard) Miller. He served four
years under Oeneral Lee In the War Between
the States. In 1873 family moved to near
Alton Osborne Co., Kansas but returned to
Wapello Co., Iowa in the summer of 1875.
(See Vannoy Fam. VIII, p. 370 herein.)

Children of Anderson Mitchell Vannoy and
his wife Adeline Miller were:

(1) Victoria Lieuellyn Vannoy, b. 3 March

1867; m. 1st., 18 March 1882, Sam¬
uel C. Harden of Wapello Co., Iowa;
m. 2nd., 29 June 1909, Shurman
Mussel Knapp. Family lived at Co¬
vert, Michigan.

(2) Robert Addison Vannoy, b. 8 Nov. 1868;

m. 29 Oct. 1896, Luella Frances
Smith. Family resided at Harlan,

Iowa.

(3) George W. Vannoy (called Jack), b. 7

Mch. lp71; m. July 1893, Sarah Bal-
doser. Family resided, Fremont, Iowa,
(li) Ruda Hannibal Vannoy, b. 18 March 1873;

d. 27 Feb. 1891,

(5) Harley Abraham Vannoy, b. 3 Nov. 1875;

d. 6 May 19U3 ; m. 29 Nov. 1899,
Maude, dau. of James Leslie and
Louisa (Luman) Mitchell of Pekin,
Iowa; resided, Long Beach, Calif.

He was a member of the Sons of the
Am. Rev. as a descendant of Nathan¬
iel Vannoy 17^9-1835.

(6) Aley Cornelia Vannoy, b. 19 Apr. 1878;

d. 1 June 1897; m. h Sept. 1895,
Cecil Double, no issue.

(7) Oscar Martin Vannoy, b. 1 Sept. 1880;

d. 7 July 1899.

(5) Chester Arthur Vannoy, b. 30 Jan.

1883; m. 19 Jan. 1905, Emma Marga¬
ret Held of Hardin Co., Iowa.

Family resided in Clarion, Iowa.

(9) Mary Eunice Vannoy, b. 18 Feb. 1885;
m, lii Aug. 1912, William J. Copen-
haver of Iowa Falls, Iowa, formerly
of Chilhowie, Va. Family resides
at Mitchellville, Iowa.

(10) William Porter Vannoy, b. 25 April

1887; m. h Aug. 1913, Ruth Frances
Cleveland Franklin of Vancouver,
Wash. Family resides, Eureka, Calif.

(11) Lester Cleveland Vannoy, b. 23 Nov.

1890. He d. unmarried. (See p. Ii37)

(2) Mary Ann Vannoy, m, George Bartlett McNiel.

Family lived in Wapello Co. , Iowa. Of
issue were, (1) Margaret McNiel who m.
Charles Tinsley; (2) Lutita McNiel, m. Mr.
Mace; (3) William McNiel who married and
had the following children, Ella who mar¬
ried Ulysses Hawthorne, Cora, Lee, Hester,
Guy, John and probably others.

(3) Sarah Carolina Vannoy, m. Lafayette Eller.

She predeceased him and he married Abagail
Phelps. There were no children by either
marriage who lived to maturity.

(!*) George W. Vannoy, b. 13 Nov. 1850; d, 28

85

Dec. 1881.

(5) Elia F. Vannoy, m. Mattie Me Ison.

(6) Julia V anncy , m. George W. Davis. Family

were farmers near Farson, Iowa.

(7) Franky Matilda Vannoy , m. Sar.uel C. Wood¬

ruff. Family lived near Highland Center,
Wapello Co., Iowa.

(8) Katherine Vannoy, m. Alexander Me Ison.

Family remold to Oklahoma.

(9) Jesse Absolom Vannoy, m. Eswa Riley.

(3) Rachel EllerS b. ?7 Dec. 18?7. Sf» may have

been the Rachel Eller who married Jonathan
Stout, licence Issued in Wilkes Co. 3 Dec.
lPWi.

(it) Matthias Eller , b. ?? March 1831.

(5) Francis Eller'', b. 3 Jan. I833j »• Mary whose

surname was not found. His will, dated 15 Sept.
lP^h in Wilkes Co., mentioned his wife Mary I.
Eller and five children as follows.

(1) John 0. Eller6.

(2) Buna V. Eller6, m. Mr. Welch.

(3) M. C. Eller6, m. Mr. Walch.

(ii) Candls A. Eller6.

(5) Arthur Eller6.

(6) Simeon Ellerc, b. 25 Jan. 1835; d. young*

(7) Susan Eller^, b* 2 Nov. 1836; m. her cousin,

Anderson Mitchell Church, son of Rev. Alexander
and Mary (Eller) Church.

(8) Nancy Jmne Eller**, b. 1 July 1838; m., licence

dated 9 Dec. I852i in Wilkes Co., Edmond W.
Foster.

(9) James Madison Eller**, b. 17 June 18L0; d. 15

July 1920; m. Louisa Vannoy, dau. of Rev. John
Humphrey Vannoy6, (Jesse r, Nathaniel1*, John^,
Francis , John1). Of issue was Dr. Albert J.
Eller of Ready Branch, Wilkes Co., N. C.

(10) William Harrison Ellery b. 16 Sept. 18L3*

Rster Eller*, (John^, Rster^, George Michael1), b. 17
“archl805; d. 7 Nov. 1872; m. 1st. Fanny Tates. She
was a daughter of John Tates and his wife Elisabeth

Cleveland, the latter b. IS July 1783, daughter of
Robert Cleveland* He m* 2nd*, 16 Nov* 1863, Louisa
Church, b. 1835/6. Peter Eller was a prominent man
in early Wilkes County. He served two terms in the
North Carolina Legislature and was a member of the
N. C. Constitutional Assembly. He and his brother
Simeon established the old Academy in Wilkesboro, one
of the first schools of higher education in Western
North Carolina. He was chosen Colonel of the Wilkes
Co. Militia and served in that capacity for many
years. His brother Simeon was chosen Captain at the
same time. He was member and chairman of the first
board of superintendents of free public schools in
Wilkes County. He was a brilliant student and inter¬
ested in all public affairs particularly those per¬
taining to public schools. Susan (Susanna) Eller,
aged 85, his mother doubtless, was living with him in
1850, according to the Federal Census of that year.

The children of Peter Eller"* and his wife Fanny Yates
were :

(1) Martha Eller , b. 1832; m. George Cantor,

(2) Benjamin Franklin Eller^, b. 1835; m. 20 Sept.

185L, Mary H, Brookshier.

(3) Barnett Cleveland Eller^, b. 1837.

(U) Henry Gordon Eller^, b. 1839. Confederate
soldier. Died in action.

(5) Rufus Eller'’, b. 18U3*

(6) John Eller'’, b. 18^5. Confederate soldier.

Died in action.

(7) Saphronie Eller'’, m. John H. McNiel.

Children:

(1) Fanry McNiel, m. Zachary Taylor Watson.

Family lived in Watauga Co., N. C.

(2) Eller McNiel.

(3) Floyd McNiel.

(li) Bamum McNiel.

(5) I tel McNiel..

(6) Lowrie McNiel.

(7) Mattie McNiel.

(8) Anther McNiel.

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(9) Sarah McNiel.

The children of Peter Eller and his 2nd. wife,
Louisa Church were, (1870 census of Wilkes Co.):

(8) Gaither Eller , b. 1865.

(9) Robert Eller^, b. 1869.

(7)

(8)

Delilah Gaxla Eller , (Johrr , Peter^, George Michael1),
b. 15 Feb. l*Cfl; m. 30 Oct. 1829, Richard Saunders.

Of issue was a son Wllliv Saunders who lived in
Ashe Co., N. C. Probably other children.

Mary (called Polly) Ellei^, (John-*, Peter^, George
Michael1), b. 1810; n. Alexander Church, a Baptist
Minister, and had children as follows.

(1) Jesse Calvin Church.

(2) Henry Harrison Church.

(3) Anderson Mitchell Charch who mrrled his cousin

Susan Eller^, daughter of Absolon4 and Sarah
(Reynolds) Eller. (John^, Peter^, George
Mich*.!1)

(L) Janes Church.

(5) Wi Ilian Church.

(6) Matilda Church.

(7) Caroline Martha Church.

(8) Jane Church.

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CATHERINE ELLER3

Daughter of Peter Eller, Family II, p# 17.

FAMILY VII

CATHERINE ELLER^, (Peter^, George Michael Eller^) was
bom in Rowan County, N. C#, 6 March 1773; d. after 1890,
probably in Pottawattamie Co,, Iowa at the home of her daugh¬
ter Mary (Polly) Graybill. The date and place of her birth
and the names of her parents were stated in the Patriarchal
Blessing accorded her on 30 July 18U3 at Nauvoo, Ill. by
Hyrum Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. (Vol. 3, P* H».8 on file at the Genealogical Society
of Utah at Salt Lake City.) She married, about 1791/92,
Michael Stoker^, bom 2h March 1762, according to a Bible
owned by a member of the Lackey family and 20 May 1762 by
Evangelical Lutheran Church Records of Frederick, Md. and
died after 27 Oct. 1836 when he sold land in Jackson Co.,

Ohio and removed to Missouri. There is some evidence stem¬
ming from endowment transcripts in the Index Bureau of the
Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints in Salt Lake City that she had a middle name,
Martha. Some of her children, viz. Elizabeth, John and
Michael appear on those transcripts as children of Michael
Stoker and Catherine Martha Eller.

Michael Stoker, doubtless, was the son of Michael
Stoker (Stocker) who settled in Frederick Co., Md. about
the middle of the 18th century. No other family of the
Stoker (Stocker) name was found by this writer in ary of
the early Frederick Co. records. The 18th century translated
records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md.,
established about 17li6, show marry Michael Stoker (Stocker)
entries beginning with the birth, on 1 April 1798, of Anna
Barbara, daughter of nMich Stocker” (sic) and his wife "Ana
Barb”. On page 992 of a copy of these church records, now
in possession of the Maryland Historical Society in Balti¬
more, Maryland, will be found a recording of eight children
of Michael Stocker (sic) the youngest, named George, bom
13 Nov. 1781. The first of these children was named Marie
Barbara, bom 1 April 1798. She doubtless was the same as
or the twin of another daughter named Anna Barbara mentioned
above as having been born on the same date. Another record

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shows, again, the birth of Marie Barbara, daughter of
Michael Stoker (sic) born 1 April 1798; baptited 19 May
1758, Thus the church records contain three separate en¬
tries of the birth, on 1 April 1798, of a daughter to
Michael Stoker (Stocker), as follows!

(1) "On 1 Apr. 1798 to Mich. Stocker et uxori Ana Barbara
a daughter Anna Barbara. Witnesses (to Baptlsa)

Marie Barbara filia coelebs Michael Reamers." Fllia
coelebs weans unmarried daughter of-.

(?) "1798, 1 April to Michael Stoker (sic) a daughter Marie

Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, baptited 19
May 17^8."

(3) "1798, 1 April to Michael Stocker (sic) a daughter

Marie Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, bap¬
tited 1^ May 1798."

As already stated, page 99? of the church book, records,
on one single page, the birth of eight children to Michael
Stocker (sic) the last child of whoa, named Oeorge, was
born, 13 November 1781 and baptised 7 June 178?. The first
seven of these recordings obviously were wade in 1769, the
8th haring been put there in 178? as will be explained later.
Preceding the neap a of the 1st, bth, 9th and 6th and 7th
child, the symbol -f* was added to show, doubtless, that the
child was deceased when the record was made. The record, on
page 99? of the church records, is as follows:

(1) 1 April 1798, to Michael Stocker a child Marie Barbara;

godmother, Barbara Romerin; baptised 19 May 1798.

(?) 1 Jan. 1760, to Michael Stocker, a child Johana Mag-

dale, godparents, Heinrich Hanth (and wife) Magda¬
lena. Date of B^tlsw not stated*

(Note by J.W.H. - On page Li$i of the church re¬
cord is shown the Marriage on ? Nov. 1781i "by
licence" of Johanna Magdalena Stockem (sic) and
Johann Jost Stimmel, Michael Stocker (sic), Peter
St Irene 1 and John and Peter Schnog serving as
witnesses.)

(3) 20 May 176?, to Michael Stocker, a child Michael; god¬

parents Michael Rawer (and wife) Charlotte Amalia,
(Amalia). Date of Baptisa not stated.

(Note by J.W.H. - This writer believes that this
was the Michael Stocker who married Catherine

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Eller of Family VII herein, page 88.

26 Aug. 176k, to Michael Stocker, a child, Elizabeth;

^ godmother, Elizabeth Roroerin* Date of baptism not
stated*

2h May 1767, to Michael Stocker, a child, Balthasar;
godparents, Balthasar Boch (and wife) Rosina. Date
of Baptism not stated,

11 gbr 1769 (two children) to Michael Stocker, namely
j a child Marie Barbara; godparents, Johannes Haas
(and wife) Mar. Barbara, and a child Christina; god¬
mother, Christina Romerin, ledig, meaning unmarried.
Baptized 19 gbr, 1769,

(Note gbr is usually an abbreviation in German for
born but in this case probably means November or
possibly February.)

13 Nov. 1781, to Michael Stocker, a child, Georg;
sponsor Georg Bens. Baptized 7 June 1782.

The above record of children of Michael Stocker, to¬
gether with others shown below are interesting in two ways.
First it will be noted that one of the sponsors in every
case bore the same given name as the child. It was a custom
in early German families to select as godmother or godfather
of children being baptized the person for whom the child was
named, usually a close relative and in some cases a respected
friend. Second, as was shown by the first record quoted
above and as will be shown by other records quoted below,
Michael Stoker’s wife as late as 2h March 1766 (Deed record)
was Barbara and as early as 12 April 1770 (Deed record) was
Elizabeth. That these wives, Barbara and Elizabeth, were
spouses of the same Michael Stoker is definitely established
by the land records of Frederick County but, as the two next
following church records show, Michael Stocker’s full name
was Joh. (John) Michael Stoker,

(1) Page 96Li of the translated church records at Md. Hist.
Soc. - Johannes, son of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth
Stoker (sic), b, Jan. 1772 and baptized 9 Feb. 1772.

(Note by J.W.H. - Page 233 of the church records show
that Johannes Stocker (sic), aged 19, was confirmed
on 22 April 1791# A translated record of the German
Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Md., p. 196, found

(U)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows a child,
Marianna Stocker, was bom to Johannes and Catherine
Stocker 10 Aug. 1809. Susan Hunts (Frenta) was her
godmother. A Catherine Stoker (sic) Is mentioned
as a dau. In the will of John Coons (sic) of Fred¬
erick Co., Kd. dated 23 Hec. 1816 and proved 6 Mch.
1817. (Liber H.S., No. 2, p. 55, Frederick Co.,

Md. Wills.)

(2) Page 591 of the translated record of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Frederick, Kd. at the Gen. Society
In Salt Lake City - Marie Salome, dau. of Michael
and Elisabeth Stocker (sic) b. 9 May 1773; bap. 27
June 1773* Her godparents were John Michel and
Salome Alex (sic).

(3) Page 617 of the translated record of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Md. Hist. Soc.-
Marle Barbara, dau. of Joh. Michael and Elisabeth
Stoker (sic), b. 23 Nee. 1771* ; bap. 16 Apr. 1775.

Her godparents were Johannes and Marie Barbara Hass,
(li ) Pages 638 and 1017 of the translated record of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the
Gen, Soc. In Salt Lake City - Eva Kargreth, dau. of
Michael and Elisabeth Stocker (sic), b. 22 July 1776;
bap. 10 Nov. 1776. Her godparents were Jacob and
Margreth Bens. This child died 12 Sept. 1777, aged
1 year.

One may wonder why these four children were not listed
with other children of Mlctmel Stoker on page 552 of the
church record (supra). After mentioning seven additional,
more or less pertinent, translated church records the reason
for this, as this writer sees It will be explained.

(1) Page L07 of the translated record of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. , found in the Mary¬
land Historical Society, Baltimore, It Is shown that
Michael Stoker and Mary Adams were married, by li¬
cence, 21 June 1778. The witnesses were Abraham Fah
and his wife Juliana and Adam and Peter Sc Knock.
Frederick Co. Marriage Hecorde show that Michael
Stoker and Mary A , the spelling not craniate,

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on 1 June 1778, were given a licence to be married.

(2) Page 209, Ibid, shows that Michael Stoker bora 2h May

1862 and Magdalena Stockem (sic) born 1 Jan. 1760
were confirmed. These two were brothers and sisters,
children of Michael and Barbara Stoker (Stocker),
their birth dates in their confirmation checking
substantially with those recorded on page £52 of the
same translated church record.

(3) Page 66U of the translated record of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. found in the
Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah, shows
that Anna Margareth, daughter of Michael and Anna
Marie Stocker (sic) was bom 15 May 1779 and baptized
2h July 1779. Her godparents were Adam and Anna
Margaretha Schnock..

(U) Page 686 of the same church record as next above shows
that Marie Catherina, daughter of Michael and Anna
Maria Stocker (sic) was bom h Sept. 1780.

(5) Page 752 of the same church record as next above shows

that Jacob, son of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker
(sic), was bom 22 May 1785. His sponsors at bap¬
tism were his parents.

(6) Page 113 of the translated record of the German Re¬

formed Church of Frederick, Md. at the Genealogical
Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, shows that Charlotte,
daughter of Michael Stocker (sic), was bom 19 Feb.
1788. Her mother*s name was not given. Her god¬
parents were Peter and Julia (Juliana) Schnock
(Schnood) .

(7) Page 1017 of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fred¬

erick, Maiyland at the Gen. Soc. of the Church of
Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Eliza¬
beth, wife of Michael Stoker died 10 Oct. 1777 at
the age of 33 years.

It should be kept in mind that the only Stoker (Stocker)
family found in the early church, land or court records of
Frederick County, Maryland was one headed by Michael. The
only suggestion of a Stoker or Stocker of another given

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nans was the same Michael in the recordings of his children
by his second wife, Elisabeth. In those recordings he was
called Joh. Michael Stoker. Deed records in Frederick Co.
calling him a saddler in every case and showing his wife to
have been Barbara in March 1766 and Elisabeth in April 1770
proves the two Michaels to have been the sue person. The
second wife, Elisabeth, died 10 Oct. 1777 at the age of 33*
On 21 June 1778 he married Mary (Marie) Adams as already
showi.

This writer explains the one page record that is found
of Michael Stoker* s (Stocker) children in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Frederick Co., Md. as follows. When his
first two daughters (twins probably) t*re bom he had them
baptised and recorded in the church book. The next four
children were not baptised or reoorded as they were bom.
When his twins, Marie Barbara and Christina were bom in
1769 he had them baptised and recorded and when this was
being dons he decided to record all of his other children,
four of wham had not been recorded, namelng their godparents
from memory. This would account for all of these children
appearing on one page where Immediately prior entries were
1769 and immediate subsequent ones 1770.

When children by his second wife, Elisabeth, came he
had them baptised and recorded. Apparently there were four
of them, one named Johannes, b. U Jan. 1772, another named
Marie Salome, b. 9 May 1773, the third was Marie Barbara,
b. 23 Dec. 177b and the fourth Eva Margreth, b. 22 July
1 776 ; d. 12 Sept. 1777. Then or. ID Oct. 1777 his wife,
Elisabeth, aged 33, died and on 21 June 1778 he married
Hai7 (Marie) Adams, his third wife.

The first child of this third marriage was Anna Mar-
gareth, b. 15 May 1779. She was baptised and recorded. The
second child by this third marriage was Marie Catherine,
bom b Sept. 1780 and baptised b March (M^r) 1781. She
probably died young. The fourth child was Oeorg b. 13 Nov.
1781. This child was baptised 7 June 1782 and the baptism
recorded not on the current page of the record book but
•queesed in on the 1769/1770 page where other children of
Michael Stoker (Stocker) had been recorded enmasse. Thus
we have on the 1769/1770 pege of the church book e record
of eight children of Michael Stoker (Stocker) bom between

9h

1758 and 1782 appearing on that page with other children of
his who were born after 1769 appearing on other pages. The
fact that his son Georg was so recorded is pretty conclusive
proof that all of the eight Stoker (Stocker) children on
that one page had the same father. The symbol apparently
was to indicate that the child was deceased and, doubtless,
was inserted when the baptism of the son Georg was recorded.

Other entries in the church records show that Michael
Stocker (Stoker) and his wife, Anna Maria, had two other
children, one named Jacob, b. 22 May 1785 and the other named
Charlotte, b. 19 Feb. 1788, making 17 children as follows.

By first wife Ana Barbara -

(1) Anna Barbara Stocker (Stoker), b. 1 Apr. 1758. She

died young.

(2) Marie Barbara Stocker (Stoker), b. 1 Apr. 1758, the

same as or twin of next above. She died young,

(3) Johana Magdale Stocker, (Stoker), b. 1 Jan. 1760*

(1*) Michael Stocker (Stoker) Jr., b. 20 May 1762. (2l* May

1762 or 2l* Mar. 1762)

(5) Elizabeth Stocker (Stoker), b. 26 Aug. 1761*. She died

young.

(6) Balthasar Stocker (Stoker), b. 2l* May 1767. He died

young.

(7) Marie Barbara Stocker (Stoker), b. 11 - 1769. She

died young.

(8) Christina Stocker (Stoker), b. 11 - 1769. Twin of

next above. She d. young.

By second wife, Elizabeth -

(9) Johannes Stocker (Stoker), b. 1* Jan. 1772.

(10) Marie Salome Stocker (Stoker), b. 9 May 1773#

(11) Marie Barbara Stocker (Stoker), b. 25 T)ec. 1771*.

(12) Eva Marpreth Stocker (Stoker), b. 22 July 1776; d. 12

Sept. 1777.

By third wife, Anna Marie Adams -

(13) Anna Margareth Stocker (Stoker), b. 15 May 1779.

(U*) Marie Catherina Stocker (Stoker), b. 1* Sept. 1780.

(15) George Stocker (Stoker), b. 13 Nov. 1781, baptized 2

June 1782.

(16) Jacob Stocker (Stoker), b. 22 May 1785.

(17) Charlotte Stocker (Stoker), b. 19 Feb. 1788.

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The church records also show that Michael Stocker
(Stoker) witnessed a goodly number of baptisms and marriages.
One marriage, "by licence in Virginia," which he and George
Schaeffer witnessed, on 20/21 Apr, 1788, was that of Christo¬
pher Schaeffer and Elitabeth Adams, she, perhaps, a sister
of his third wife. (Page 309.) Michael Stoker attended
coemnion senrlce on Oct, 18, 1778, 13 May 1779, May li*,

1780, May 19, 1782, June 8, 1783, June 30, 1781*, June 1*,

1786, May 27, 1787, Oct. 7, 1787 and April 21*, 1791. On
June 30, 1781* and June 1*, 1786 he was accompanied by his
"fllia," meaning his daughter. A Michael Stocher (sic) at¬
tended services Oct. 23, 1803 end June 2, 1805. After the
latter date he was not found again in the records.

The spelling of the name in the church reoords varied
frequently between Stoker and Stocker but in deeds mentioned
herein, it was spelled Stoker. He obviously was a German
but from whence in Germs ry he or his parents came was not
discovered. This writer once thought that he was, very
likely, the son ctf Michael Stoker, aged 31 *ho cane to
Penney Ivan la on the ship "Brittania" with Margaret Stoker,
aged 21*, his wife probably, and took his oath of allegiance
21 Sept. 1731 but dismissed the idea when he later learned
that Michael mid Margaret Stoker's son Michael died in 1771
In Macungle Twsp. of Northampton (now Lehigh Co.), Pennsyl¬
vania, his will having been probated there, 25 Jan. 1771,
namelng a wife Margaret and children Mary, Elitabeth,
Catherine, Susanmh and George.

Michael Stoker of Frederick Co., Md. is first found in
the records of that county on 1 April 1758 when the birth
dates of his dmighters Ann Barbara and Marie Barbara, (they
may have been the same child), were recorded in the Evangel¬
ical Lutheran Church at Frederick, Md. On lit May 1760 he
purchased from Ballls Paugb lot No. 118 in Fredericktown,
Frederick County, Md, (Deed Book F, p. 985) In that deed
he is called a sailer. Another Frederick Co. deed dated 21*
March 1766, "Michael Stoker, sadler," his wife Barbara re¬
linquishing her dower, sold this same lot in Frederick Town
to John Hoffman. (Deed Book Kf p. L32.) On 30 Aug. 1768,
"Michael Stoker aadler" purchased from Henry Brunner lot
No. 83 and a half interest in lot No. 80 located in Fred¬
erick Town. (Deed Book L, pp. 1*73-^75. ) This deed was

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corrected on 2h Dec, 1772 to read lot 82 rather than lot 83.
(Deed Book P, p. £30.)

Sometime near the date of the last purchase his first
wife Barbara apparently died because on 12 April 1770
’’Michael Stoker, sadler," his wife Elizabeth relinquishing
her dower, sold to Henry Brunner, a five foot strip off of
the lot purchased from said Brunner 30 Aug# 1768# (Deed
Book N, p. 90.) On 7 Nov. 177h "Michael Stoker," his wife
Elizabeth relinquishing her dower, conveyed to Samuel Miller
a part of lot No. 82 that he had acquired from Henry Brunner,
30 Aug. 1768, when his wife doubtless was Barbara. (Deed
Book L, p. I*73-^7£ and Deed Book W, p. 23£.) On 19 Nov#

1778 "Michael Stoker farmer," his wife Maiy relinquishing
her dower, sold another part of lot No, 82 to Philip Shade#
(Deed Book RP1, p. £19.) These deeds relating to Lot No*

82 first when his wife, doubtless, was Barbara, second when
his wife, certainly, was Elizabeth and third when his wife,
certainly, was Mary (Marie) are conclusive proof that it
was the same Michael Stoker who married these three wives#

The Archives of Maryland, Vol. XLVIII shows orders in
Council on 30 Nov. 1781 to pay certain sums of money to
Michael and James Stocker (sic). On U* March 1783 other
orders were given to pay Michael Stoker (sic) 17 pounds, 17
shillings and 1 pence#

Michael Stockerd (Stoker) is shown in the 1790 census
of Wilkes County, Morgan District as being over 16 years of
age but with no other person listed in his family* Morgan
District later (1799) became Ashe County and was the same
District where Peter Eller, John Koons and Conrad Dick lived.
His farm was on the North Fork of New River in Ashe Co. He
married Catherine Eller^ about 1791/92 and on 29 Dec. 1792
purchased from John Dick 100 acres of land on Naked Creek
in Ashe Co. which creek flows from the west into the south
fork of New River. James Buryard was a witness. (Book B-l,
p. 21*9, Wilkes Co., N. C. Deeds.) On 13 March 1806 he
entered l£0 acres of land on the North Fork of New River
adjoining his existing land. This land was surveyed March
12, 1806 and granted to Michael Stoker, 27 Nov, 1806. (Grant
#629, Ashe Co., N. C., Secy, of State’s office, Raleigh,

N. C. ) The survey was signed by Jesse and Eli Cleveland and
attested by Peter and Jacob Ellar (sic)#

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The family removed to Jackson Co., Ohio about 1W16/1C.

It was here, probably, that the parents embraced the Mormon
Faith. On 27 Oct. 1836 he sold his property in Jackson Co.,
Ohio and followed the Mormon nigratien to Missouri. His
wife Catherine, apparently was living near Nauvoo, Illinois
in 1861 where she had herself baptised for her father Peter
Eller^, her grandparents on her mother's side, vl*. Kinrod
(Conrad) and Catherine Dick, her brother John Eller^ and her
dau. Rebecca Stoker^. (Nauvoo, Ill. Baptisms for the Dead,
Mormon, at Oen. Soc. of Utah, Salt Lake City.) See f\ill
list of these baptisms on page 20, Family II herein.

This writer is indebted to Mrs. Madeline E. Fletcher
of Boise, Idaho for the following record of descendants of
Catherine Eller^ and her husband Mchael Stoker Jr. as well
as for such other information about the Stoker, Eller, Dick
and Koons families that appears on other pages of this book.
The family Bible of Catherine (Stoker) Lackey^, now owned by
a descendant, fu mi shed some of the data supplied by Mrs.
Fletcher while other family records collected uy her from
m ary sources supplied the remainder.

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The children of Catherine Eller , ( Peter , George
Michael^) and her husband, Michael Stoker, were, five sons
and three daughters as follows t

(1) Mary (Polly) Stoker^, b., ?6 Nov. 1792, in that part of
Wilkes Co. that in 1799 became Ashe Co., N. C. ; d.,

18 Feb. l86ii, (gravestone), in Pottawattamie Co., Ia.

(Family rec. also says d. 18 Feb. 1866.) She m. , about
1811, in Ashe Co., N. C. , Michael Crayblll, b., 16 May
1787 in Wilkes, later Ashe Co., N, C. ; d., ?U Sept.

18 56 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Both lie buried in
a cemetery situated east of Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Children of Mary (Polly) Stoker^ and her husband
Michael Qrayblll, were:

(1) David Crayblll ’, b., 26 Sept. 1812 in Ashe Co.,

N. C.; d. , in Adams Co., Ill. He m., Mahala
Hill.

(2) Catherine Qrayblll , b., 9 June 1816, in Ashe Co.,

N. C.) d., 1 Dec. 1886, in Pottawattamie Co.,

Iowa, where she lies burled in the cemetery

situated east of Council Bluffs, She probably
m., Philip Gatrost but proof not found*

(3) Simeon Peter Graybill^, b., 26 March 1816, in
Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 27
June 1889, in Pottawattamie Co,, Iowa. He m, ,

16 March 1837, in Jackson Co., Ohio, Amanda Hill
who d. 21 Feb. 181*8, in Adams Co., Ill. He m.,
2nd., 5 Oct. 1862, Mrs. Frances (Graham) Downs,
dau. of Thomas and Sarah A. (McCruary) Graham.

(1*) Levi Graybill^, b., 12 March 1818, in Jackson Co.,
Ohio; d., 30 Nov. 1912. He m. , Patience Smith,
b. 25/26 Nov. 1825 in Henry Co., Ind. and died,
lh Aug. 1895, at Wheeler Grove, Pottawattamie Co.
Iowa. She was a dau. of John Smith and his wife
Massie Koons. (See Family X herein.) Levi Gray-
bill lies buried in the cemetery located east of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, his wife, Patience, in the
cemetery at Wheeler Grove.

(5) George Washington Graybill^, b., 26 June 1821, in
Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 5 March 1900. He m. twice,
first to Mary Smith, b. 16 Sept. 1823; d. 16 Feb.
i860. He m. 2nd., in 1863 his deceased wife's
twice widowed sister, Mrs. Hannah (Oman or Omen)
Sexton, widow of James Sexton. (See pp. 11*9/150)
These two sisters were daughters of John and
Massie (Koons) Smith and granddaughters of Mary
Eller^ (Peter^, George Michael^) and her husband
George Koons. (See History and Directory of
Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 1880-1881, also see
Biographical History of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa
by Lewis Pub, Co., 1891.)

Children by first wife (family record and 1850
and i860 Census of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa):

(1) Hannah Graybill^, aged 8 in 1850 and 17 in

i860, b. in Ohio. She m. Henry Fisher.

(2) Brigham Young Graybill^, b, 10 May 181*1*, at

Nauvoo, Ill.; d. April 1931; m. Theresa

_ , b. in Ind., 11 Aug. 181*2; d. 6

March 1900.

(3) George Gravbill^, b. 181*6/1*7, in Iowa; m.

Laura Doty.

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(li) Polly (Parley) Graybill , b. I8ii8/li9; d. 1872.

(5) John Oraybill6, b. 12 May 1851; d. 10 May

1919; m., 2ii March i860, Annas Elisabeth
Ervin, b. , 12 May 1858, near Logan, Iowa;
d. U Oct. 1927. She was a dau. of Janes
and Sarah (Higgenbotham) Erwin, who cane to
Iowa in 1856 fro* Va. It was their dau.,
Florence Eva Orayblll (Wilson)”, who sup¬
plied the family data pertaining to George
Washington Graybill.

(6) Willla* I. Graybill6, aged 7 in i860. Proba¬

bly the sane as Isaiah Graybill who Mary
Ann Wllllans.

(7) Massie Graybill6, aged 5 in i860, b. in Iowa,

probably the sane as Mattie Graybill6, b.

3 Apr. 1855; d. 29 Sept. 1872 (gravestone).

(8) Sarah Graybill6, probably, b. 16 Oct. 1856;

d. 13 Sept. 1857 (gravestone).

(9) Catherine Graybill6, aged 2 in 1860, b. in

Iowa. She *. Thomas Cook.

(10) Adelaide Graybill6. The sane probably os

Lydia J. Graybill, aged U nonths in i860
census. She n. Willla* Cook, a brother of
Thomas Cook, who *. her sister Catherine.
Children of George Washington Graybill and his
2nd. wife:

(11) Julia Graybill . *. Patrick Hegarty.

(12) Samel Graybill6.

(13) Zenos Graybill6.

(llj) The younger children of his 2nd. wife lived
lr. his hone after his 2nd. marriage.

(6) Willla* Lenore Orayblll6, b., 25 Jan. 1825 by Gray-

bill family records and 5 Jan. I8?li by his grave¬
stone in the cemetery situated east of Council
Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. He d. 25 June
18*0. According to the i860 census of Pottawat¬
tamie Co., Iowa his wife's given name was Anna.

(7) Juliana (Julia Ann) Graybill6, b. , 19 Feb. 1825/26,

in Jackson Co., Ohio. Date of her death not
found. She married Wllford Heath tiidson.

(8) Michael S. Graybill’, b. , 6 July 1827.

(b) Mary Ann Graybill b., 25 Feb. 1*30.

(10) Elizabeth Graybill

(11) Sidney R. Graybill

16 Sept. 1833.
6 April 1836.

David Stoker , b. , 23 March 1795 in Ashe County, N. C.;
d., 27 May 1852 at Winterquarters, Iowa, He m. , 1811*,
Barbara Graybill, b., April 1792 in Ashe County, N.C.;
d#, 3 Oct. 1872 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., Utah. She
was a dau. of Peter Graybill and his wife Christina
Wampler. (Family Records)

The children of David Stoker and his wife Barbara
Graybill were:

(1) Christina Stoker , b., 2l* Aug. 1815 in Bloom¬

field Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 10 May
185U/56; m., John McDaniel.

(2) John Stoker^, b. , 8 March 1817, in Madison Twsp.

of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 11 June 1881. He
believed in polygamy and had three wives the
first of whom was Jane McDaniel; b. 2h Feb.

1810 in Racoon Twsp. of Gallia Co., Ohio; d.,

20 Jan. 1890 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah
where both she and her husband lie buried. She
was a dau. of James McDaniel and his wife
Zibiah McCarley.

Children of John Stoker' and his first wife
Jane McDaniel were:

(1) Hiram Stoker^, b., 9 Nov. 181*0, at Columbus,

Adams Co., Ill.; d. , 5 June 1885 (sic).

He did not marry.

(2) Franklin Stoker^, b., 12 Aug. 181*2, in

Hancock Co., Ill.; d., 25 Sept* 1855.

No further records.

(3) David Stoker^, b., 28 Sept. 181*1*, in Han¬

cock Co., Ill.; d. 1 Apr. 1911; m., 3
March 1866, Regena Hogan.

(1*) Zibiah Stoker^, b., 21 March 181*7 in

Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d., 28 May 1933;
m., 5 Apr. 1869, Judson Tolman.

(5) Sarah Ann Stoker^, b., 10 Oct. 1851 in

Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; d., 23 Jan.

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192?; v,., 2 March 1069, Harlan Simona.

(3) William Stoker**, b. , 26 March 1019 in Bloomfield,
Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 19 March (May) 1092; m.
Almira W me gar, b. 27 Feb. 1010 (1019); d.f 6
Nov. 100ii. She was a dau. of Samel X. and
Rhoda £. (Cumins) Winegar.

(ii) Nancy Stoker*’, b., Oct. 102i«, in Bloomfield Twsp.
of Jackaon Co., Ohio.

(5) Sarah Stoker'’, b. 26 June 1027, in Bloomfield

Twap. of Jackaon Co., Ohio; d. , 10 June 1900.
Another record, probably an error, aaya she
d., 10 March 1900. She married Edward H. Davis.

(6) Catherine Stoker^, t>. , 25 July 1029, in Bloom¬

field Twap. of Jackaon Cc., Ohio; d. 0 Nov.

1002; m. , 19 May 1050, Sylvanua Kulet.

(7) Michael Stoker^, b., 1? Sept. 1033, in Bloom¬

field Twap. of Jackson Co., Ohio. He first
married Martha C. Frederick. Hi a second wife
waa Polly or Britan, or Brltlanla, or Brltania
Hughes.

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Elisabeth Stoker , b. 20 Feb. 1000 In Ashe Co., N. C.;
d. about Jan. 1060, at Bloomington, Bear Lake Co.,
Idaho. She m. James Welker, b. , 19 Aug. 1003, in
Rowan Co., N. C. A genealogy of the Welker family
la now in course of preparation ty the descendants
of James Robert Welker^ which accounts for the follow¬
ing abbreviated record of the descendants of this
family.

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The children of Elisabeth Stoker and her husband,
James Welker, were five sons and three daughters as
follows! r

(1) David Welker , b. 2 July 1023 in Henry Co., Ind. ;

d. young. ^

(2) James Wilburn Welker , b. 17 Jan. 1025 in Jack-

son Co., Ohio; d. 3 May 1912 at Bloomington,

Bear Lake Co., Idaho. He married, 1st., 17
Feb. 10ij5, Anna ftigh, b. 31 Jan. 1020 at Knox¬
ville, Knox Co., Tennessee, daughter of Daniel
Pugh and Martha Harris. He married 2nd., 9usan

Caroline Stevenson, b. 29 June 1833 in Knox Co.,
Tennessee; d. 22 Sept. 1907 at Magrath, Alberta,
Canada, She was a daughter of Issac Henderson
Stevenson and his wife Maiy Pugh. He was the
father of nine sons and eight daughters by his
two wives as follows:

Children of James Wilburn Welker^ and his first
wife Anna Pugh:

(1) Alfred Welker , b., 22 July I81i7, in Pot¬

tawattamie Co,, Iowa; d* 25 Dec. 189 6 at
Safford, Graham Co., Arizona; m. Eliza
Madsen, date not found. Eliza Madsen,
dau. of Jacob Christian Madsen and Doro¬
thea Christina Jensen, was b., 22 Apr.
181*9, at Rostrup, Aaborg, Denmark; d.,

31 Dec, 1910, at Safford, Graham Co,,
Arizona. They had seven children.

(2) Hetta Emeline Welker^, b., 1 Nov. 181*8, in

Pottawattamie Co,, Iowa; d., 17 Nov. 1900,
at Georgetown, Bear Lake Co., Idaho; m.,
ca. July 1867, Harvy Alvaro Dunn, b., 2?
July 181*9, in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, a
son of Thomas Dunn and his wife Harriet
Carter. He d, , 16 March 1925, at George¬
town, Bear Lake Co,, Idaho. They had
eight children.

(3) Orlena Welker^1, was b., 1* Jan. 1850, in

Pottawattamie Co,, Iowa; d., 30 Jan. 1907
at Bloomington, Bear Lake Co., Idaho; m.
Journal Palmer at Salt Lake City, Utah,
son of Isaac Palmer and his wife Ann
Hodkinson. He was b., 10 May 181*7, in
Hancock Co., Illinois; d. 29 May 1920 at
Bloomington, Bear Lake Co., Idaho. They
had eight children.

(1*) James Albert Welker^, b., 6 July 1851 (or
Jan. 1851) in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa;
d. 16 Dec. 19l*0 at Montpelier, Bear Lake
Co., Idaho; m., 25 Feb. 1875* Inger
(Ipgar) Madsen, dau. of Jacob Christian

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Madsen and Dor the a or Dortha Christina
Jensen, b. , 2li June l652i, at Rostrup,
Aaborg, Denmark; d, 20 Apr. 1927, at
Montpelier, Bear Lake Co., Idaho,
Descendants of Ingar give the name of
her mother as Oort ha Christina Jensen
whereas the descendants of Elisa give
her mother's name as Christina Jensen,
They had ten children,

(9) Ada* Pugh Welker , b., U or Hi Feb, 1893,
at Alpine, Utah Co., Utah; d, , 20 Jan*
1926, at Bloomington, Bear Lake Co,,
Idaho; m, Clara Georgina Osmond, dau, of
George Osmond and his wife Georgina
Huckeale, b., L Dec, 1897, at Bountiful,
Deris Co,, Utah; d. , 26 Apr. 1936, at
Paris, Bear Lake Co,, Idaho. They had
elfht children,

(6) Gilbert Welker , b, 2li Aug, 1859, at

Willard, Box Elder Co,, Utah; d. , 26
April 1938, at Mampe Canyon Co,, Idaho,

He m, 1 Jan, 1879, Charlotte Kelson, l.
the 10th of Octbr. 1897 at Proro, Utah
Co,, Idaho; d, 6 Sept, 1935 at Maapa,
Ciryon Co,, Idaho, She was a dau, of
Nels Christian and Catherine (Johnson)
Kelson, They raised a family of thirteen
children,

(7) Wlltwm Welker \ b. , 10 Sept, 1897, at

Willard, Box Elder Co,, Utah; d. , date
not found; m, Hannah Jane Sou Is by , date
not found, Hannah Jans Sou Is by was b,

9 Dec. 1869, She was a dau, of Joseph
an! Jane D. (Patterson) Souleby. They
had ten children.

(8) Ephrlam *elker^, b. , 3 Fab, i860, at Wil¬

lard, Box Elder Co,, Utah; d», 20 May
1897, at Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arlsona,
He did not marry,

(9) Rebecca Ann Welker®, b,, 2L Jan, I86J4, at

Willard, Boa Elder Co,, Utah; d. , date

10U

not found; m» Peter Greenhalgh, date not
found* Peter Greenhalgh was a son of
Peter Greenhalgh and his wife Sarah Heald.

He was b., 9 Nov. 1855, at Willard, Box
Elder Co., Utah; death date not found*

No further record found.

Children of James Wilburn Welker^ and his 2nd. I
wife Susan Catherine Stevenson, all born in
Bloomington, Bear Lake County, Idaho, were:

(10) Isabelle Jane Welker^, b., 9 Nov. 1861; I

d., 16 Mar. 19l2, at Cardston, Alberta,
Canada; m., 5 Feb. 1885, Walter William
Ackroyd. Walter William Ackroyd was a
son of Thomas Ackroyd and his wife
Susannah Holmes. He was bora, 7 Aug.

18U6, at Conisborough, England; d., 5
Feb, 192li, at Magrath, Alberta, Canada*

They had six children.

(11) Susan Eveline Welker^, b., 19 Mar. 1866; I

d. , 23 Oct. 1898, at Moreland, Bingham
Co., Idaho; m. , 23 Oct. 1885, at Logan,

Cache Co., Utah, Warren Parks Lindsay.

Warren Parks Lindsay was b., 28 July
1862, at Kaysville, Davis Co., Utah, son
of William B. Lindsay Jr. and his wife
Julia Parks and died, 2li May 1952, at
Moreland, Bingham Co., Idaho. They had
six children*

(12) Sarah Welker^, b., 31 July 1868; d., 31 1

March 1881, of diphtheria, at Bloomington,
Idaho.

(13) Francis Marion Welker , b., 23 Jan. 1870; I

d., Hi Apr. 1881, of diphtheria at Bloom¬
ington, Idaho.

(Hi) Harris Alexander Welker , b., lli Nov. 1872; I
d., 6 Aug. 1927, at Salt Lake City, Utah; I
m. , 25 Feb. 1909, at Grassy Lake, Alberta,
Canada, Phoebe Perry. Phoebe Perry was
a dan. of Don Carlos Perry and his wife
Martha Bingham. She was born, 1 Sept*

10*

1891, at Vernal, Uintah Co*, Utah. She
m. ?nd, , 19 Oct* 1930, George D. Adana.

(15) Abraham Welker^, b. , 7 1875; d* 192L/5.

He never married.

(16) Catherine Almira Welker , b. 22 Dec* 1876;

d., 7 Apr* 1881, of diphtheria, at Bloom¬
ington, Idaho.

(17) Caroline Alrlra We Ike/5 , twin of next above

b., 22 Dec. 1*76; d., 9 Apr. 1881, of
diphtheria, at Bloomington, Idaho.

(3) John Welker'', b., 16 Mar. 1826, in Jackson Co.,
Ohio; d., 1 June 1913, at Safford, Graham Co*,
Arizona. He married Roxanna, (Roxana) Mahala
rXistln, 2 Apr. 18*0* She was boro, 3 Jul y 1833
(?), probably at Le Roy, Genesee Co., Hew York;
d., 11 Mar. 19 Oti , at Safford, Graham Co.,
Arizona, a dau * of dechlas rtistln and his wife
Asenath Hurlbert or Herlbert.

Children of John Welker and his wife Roxanna
Kahala Dustin were:

(1) ftoxanna Louisa Welker^, b., 20 Aug. 1851,

at Council Bluffs, fottawattamle Co*,
Iowa; d., 26 Jan* 1918, at Safford,

Graham Co*, Arizona* She a., 10 Oct.
1867, Christian Madsen *io d. 9 March
1921 at Safford, Arizona* Christian
Madsen was a son of Jacob Christian
Madsen and Dorothea Christina Jensen,
born at Brondon, Hedegaare, Aaborg, Dsn-
mark. She died, 9 Mar. 1921, at Safford,
Graham Co*, Arizona. They had ten chlld-
ren.

(2) John Eller Welker , b., 12 July 1853, at

Willard, Box Elder Co*, Utah; d*, 29
Hot. 1918, at Salem, Fremont Co., Idaho.
He m*, 2 Feb. 1875, Sarah Ann Thomock,
dau, of John Thomock and his wife, Ann
Bott* She was b., 16 Apr. 1856, at Salt
Lake City, Utah; ?9 Apr. 1921, at
Druwaond, Fremont Co., Idaho. They had

eleven children*

(1*) Jacob Stoker Welker^, b., 8 Jan. 1829, in Jack-
son Co., Ohio; d. , 28 Apr, 1911, at Bloomington
Bear Lake Co,, Idaho, He m. , Feb, 1855, Har¬
riet Angelina Lish, b., 25 July 1839, at Green¬
wood, Stueben Co., New York; d. , 6/7 Oct,,

1911*, at Bloomington, Bear Lake Co,, Idaho.

She was a dau. of Joseph Lyons Lish and his
wife Harriet Ann Tripp* (See p. 1*36.)

Children of Jacob Stoker Welker^ and his wife,
Harriet Angeline Lish were:

(1) Jacob Welker^, b., 27 May 1856, at Willard,

Box Elder Co,, Utah; d., 1 May i860, at
Willard, Box Elder Co., Utah,

(2) Harriet Ann Welker , b., 3 Dec, 1857 at

Willard, Utah; d., 28 July 1939* She
married Andrew Thompson,

(3) Charles Wesley Welker , b., 1* May 1859, at

Willard, Utah; d., 6 Oct. 1939* He m. ,

28 Jan. 1885, Ruth Briscoe,

(1*) Joseph Lyons Welker^, b. , 9 Feb. 1861, at
Willard, Utah; d., 13 Jan. 1939, at
Phoenix, Arizona, He m. , 2 Apr, 1881*,
Annie Otisha (Olisha) Williams. She was
a dan, of David Alexander Williams and
his wife Elizabeth Sweeton, b,, 12 Aug,
1870, at White River, Prairie Co,, Ar¬
kansas; d,, 2 Dec, 19l*3, at Phoenix,
Arizona, They had children.

(5) John Quincy Welker^*, b., 10 Sept, 1862, at

Willard, Utah; d., 11 Jan, 1937. He m. ,
Julia Ann Morris, 23 March 1881*.

(6) Louisa Mahala Welker^, b., 12 July 1861*, at

Willard, Utah; death date not found. She
m., George H. Thomock b. 31 March 1859.

(7) Orlena Erne line Welker^, b., 6 Apr. 1866,

at Bloomington, Idaho; death date not
found. She m. Parley Biglow.

(8) James Jfyron Welker^, b., 1 Nov. 1868, at

Bloomington, Idaho; death date 9 May 1936

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He m., Sarah Jane Lloyd, b. 1L Oct. 1673*

(9) Ajhp 11a Jane Welker^, b., 19 Apr. 1871, at
Bloomington, Idaho; d. 25 July 1929. She
m., Harland Edward Loveland, d. 11 Nov. 186L.

(10) Eliza Augusta Welker^, b., 6 Jan. 1873, at

Bloomington, Idaho; d. 17 Dec. 19L5. She
, John William Prescott, b. 16 Feb. lp60.

(11) Alvah Alexander Welker^, b., 15 Aug. 187L,

at Bloomington, Idaho; death date not
found. He n. , Ema Jane Ward*

(12) Rachel Melvina Welker^*, b., 19 Nov. 1876,

at Bloomington, Idaho; d. , 3 Apr. 1877,
at Bloomington, Idaho#

(13) Alsada Angelina Welker^, o. , 9 Sept. 1878,

at Bloomington, Idaho; death date not
found# She m., Willard Jtyrm Crook or
K rogue, 25 Oct. 18o9.

Mary Catherine Welker , b., 12 Jan. 1832, in
Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 8 Dec. 1920, at Franklin,
Greenlee Co., Arizona. She m., Thomas Billing*
ton Nelson, b. , 9 May 1835, in Jefferson Co.,
Illinois; d., 19 Feb. 1918, at Thatcher,

Graham Co., Arizona, a son of Edmond Nelson and
Jane Tgjrlor.

Children of Mary Catherine Welker** and her
husband, Thomas Billlngton Nelson were:

(1) Elizabeth Mary Jane Nelson^, b., 19 Feb.

1853 or li, at either Mountainvllle, Utah
Co., Utah or Willard, Box Elder Co.,

Utah and d., 18 Feb. 1913* She m., Anton
Madsen, b. 16 June 18^1; d. 19 April 192b.

(2) Thomas James Nelson , b. , 19 Oct. 1855, at

Mount ainvi lie, Utah Co., Utah; d«, 17
Aprill88l. He m., Alice Hiet.

(3) Charles Edmond Nelson , b., 3 or 23 Dec.

1857, at P^son, Utah Co., Utah; d., 6
Apr. 1933* He married, 11 Sept. 1879,
his cousin, Julia Ann Stevens, dau. of
Alexander Roswell Stevens and his wife
Rebecca Welker. Charles Edmond Nelson m.,

as his 2nd, wife, Emma Christena Packer,
(U) John William Nelson^*, b., 11 Aug. i860, at
Willard, Box Elder Co., Utah; d., 30
June 1881. He m. , Mary Eliza Arnold,

(5) Margaret Ann Nelson , b., 1 Nov. 1862, at

Logan, Cache Co., Utah; d., 3 Dec, 19i*2,
at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona, She m. ,
9 Jan, 1881, Ira Taylor Kempton, son of
Nathan Kempton and his wife Rachel R,
Cooper, He was b,, 2 Feb, 1850, at El
Paso, El Paso Co., Texas; d,, 26 Mar,
1919, at Bisbee, Cochise Co,, Arizona,
They had eleven children*

(6) Martha Emeline Nelson^, b,, 2 Oct. 1865, at

Bloomington, Bear Lake Co., Idaho; d,,
in 1881,

(7) Joseph Aaron Nelson^, b. , 1 Apr. 1868, at

Bloomington, Idaho; d. , 11 Apr, 19U0, He
m., Ann Elizabeth Palmer*

(8) Adam Heber Nelson^, b. , 11 June or Jan,

1870, at Bloomington, Idaho; d., 2 Apr,
191*6. He married Elizabeth Jarvis*

(9) Effie Rosena Nelson6, b., Hi Sept. 1872,

at Bloomington, Idaho; still living 1956.
She m., David H. Claridge, 29 Dec. 1892,
in Graham Co., Arizona,

(10) Dora Rebecca Nelson , b. , 28 Feb. 1875, at

(probably) Bloomington, Idaho; death date
not found. She m., William Smith.

(11) Hyrum Jacob Nelson^, b., 1 Sept. 1877, at

Bloomington, Idaho; d,, 10 Mar, 1931*. He
m., Julia Rasmussen,

(6) Sarah Welker^, b., 183!*, in Jackson Co., Ohio; d,

in infancy,

(7) Rebecca Welker^, b., 21 July 1835, in Jackson

Co., Ohio; d., 1863, in Willard, Box Elder Co.,
Utah. She m. , Alexander Roswell Stevens, b,#

28 Nov, 1832/3, at Mt. Pleasant, Canada; d.,

17 Jan. 1915, at Springfield, Lane Co., Oregon.
He was a son of Roswell Stevens and his wife
Mari ah Doyle or D^le.

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Children of Pabecca Welker and her husband,
Alexander Roswell Stevens, were:

(1) Alexander Alvin Stevens", b., 9, 21 or 27

Feb. lBSL, In Alpine, Utah Co., Utah; d.,
9 Mar. 1900; ■• , 1 July i860, Louisa
Christina K rogue , dau. of Janes Peter
K rogue and his wife, Charlotte Anella
Nielson. She was b., 17 June 1696, at
Sprlngvllle, Utah Co., Utah. They had
chi ldren.

(2) Janes Roswell St evens6, b«, 16 Aug. 1696,

at Willard, Box Elder Co., Utah; d. , 19
Dec. 19L5, at Brldger, Carbon Co.,
Montana; a., 1st. 6 J an. 1679, Jannett e
(Janet) Bee, dau. of Richard John Moxey
Bee and his wife ieorglana McKcchney.

She was b., 26 Jan. 1662, at Richmond,
Cache Co., Utah; d. , 3 May 1666, at
Safford, Grahaa Co., Arlsona. He
2nd., 1 April 1669, Sarah Alsea Barney,
widow of Henry F. Moo'-fcr , at Safford,
Orsha* Co., Arltana. Sarah Alsea Barney,
dau. of Bueran Barney and Ms wife Laura
Mathews was bom 23 Feb., the year not
given and d., 3 Dec. 1936, at Ancortes ,
Skagit Co., Washington. There were three
children by first and eight by second
■arriage.

(3) Mallnda Rebecca Stevens , b., 3 Apr. 1898,

at Salt Lake City, Utah; d. , 20 Sept.
1902, at Garden City, Rich Co., Utah; a.,
lii Jan. 1875, Hyrua Nephl Dustin, son of
Seth rfcistln and his wife Hannah Loveland.
He was b., 27 Oct. 1655, at Bountiful,
Davis Cc., Utah and d. , 31 July 1931, at
Garden City, Rich Co., Utah. They had
seven children*

(L) Elisabeth Marla Stevens , b. , 27 March
1859, at Willard, Box Elder Co., Utah)
d., 13 June 1699, at Vernal, Uintah Co.,
Utah; a., John Brlgha* Bennett, eon of

David Bennett and his wife Mary Garnett*

He was b., 7 Mar. 1851*, at Bradford,
Yorkshire, England; d., 7 Mar. 1936, at
Vernal, Uintah Co., Utah. They had eight
children.

(5) Julia Ann Stevens0, b. , 21 June 1863, at

Willard, Box Elder Co., Utah; d., 20 Nov.
1893 at Bryce, Ariz . ; m., 1st. William
Dustin, m. 2nd., 11 Sept. 1879, Charles
Edmond Nelson.

(8) Adam ^elker^, b. , 19 Feb. 181*1, near Columbus,

Adams Co., Illinois; d., 2 April 1926, at
Safford, Graham Co., Arizona. He m., Agnes
Dock, 22 Feb. 1865, at Willerd, Box Elder Co.,
Utah. Agnes Dock was b., 28 Apr. 181*7, at
Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland and d. , 25 Feb. 1913,
at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona. She was a
dau. of Robert Dock and his wife Agnes Dreg-
horn. All of the children of this family who
married had children.

The children of Adam Welker^ and his wife Agpes
Dock, all but two youngest bom at Bloomington,
Bear Lake County, Idaho, were:

(1) James Robert Welker , b., 25 Jan. 1866, at
Bloomington, Idaho; d., 29 May 1950, at
Mesa, Maricopa Co., Arizona. He m. , 16
Sept. 1886, at Thatcher, Graham Co.,
Arizona, Louisa Peel, b. , 8 Nov. 1866,
at Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; d. , 20
Apr. 191*5, at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona.
She was a dau. of Benjamin and Nancy
Turnbull) Peel.

The children of James Robert Welker^ and
his wife Louisa Peel, all bom at Safford,
Graham Co., Arizona, were: (See p. 1*36)

(1) Chloe Louisa Welker^, b. 19 July 1887;
m., 19 July 1911, at Safford,

Arizona, Charles Eugene (Hall)

Evans. They have children, all bom

Ill

at Safford, Grahan Co., Arizona,
(1) Madeline Evans^, b., 19 July
1912; n. 23 April 1937, at Mesa,
Maricopa Co., Arizona, Herbert
Calvin Fletcher; (2) Helen Evana
b., 27 Aug. lbllij (3) Everett
Evans' w ^ “

8

Maclefl3ean Bryan;

Evans , b. 8 June 1917;

, b., 20 Oct. 1915; 19

Jan. 193®, at Hollywood, Calif.,

(Ji) Calvin We lkar
1 Mch.

191*1, at Kansas City, Missouri,
Charlotte Ann Johannes.

(?) Vtllsrd Jams mU.r7, b. 9 July

lP93i tS l^l), »t S afford,

Arizona, Rosa Ellsworth. They have
children, all bom at S afford,
OrahaaCo., Arizona, (1) Homan
Janas Welker®, b. IXi July 1916; a.,
28 Kay 191*1, Charlotte Lucille
Waldron, b., 1* Sept. 1916, at
Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona, a
dau. of Wllllaa Eustace and Luclle
Ajqt (Merrill) Waldron, the latter

a grand dau. of Alfred and Kllza
Madsen Welker, a great grand dau.
of Janes Wilburn and Anna (high)
Welker and a great, great grand
dau. of Janes and Elizabeth (Stoker)
Welker, (supra). (2) Elizabeth
Welker®, b. 27 Feb. 1020; ■., 25
Jan. 191*6, at Mesa, Maricopa Co.,
Arizona, Max Curtis Layton; (3)

Man Marie Welker®, b., 22 Jan.

1928; ■., 7 May 191*8, at Safford,
Ariiona, Carl Wllllaa Torkinson; (1*)
Mac Ellsworth Welker t b. 16 Apr.
1932; d., 7 Feb. 1953, it Safford,
Arizona.

(3) Lawrence Harold Welker , o. 27 Mov.
1898; a., 30 Oct. 191*0, at Wilcox,
Cochise Co., Arizona, Mrs. Margaret

Lon a Chapman, bom Margaret Lona
Stuebing, No children,

(ii) Ruby Welker^, b. 13 July 1903; m.,

9 June 1929, at Safford, Arizona,
Charles Waughtal. No children,

(9) Struan Entwhistle Welker*^, b. 7 July
1908; m. 1st., 29 Jan, 1932, Zella
Moocfcr. She died, 29 June 1936, in
a motor car accident at Safford,
Arizona, He m., 2nd,, 22 Dec,

19ii0, at Lordsburg, Hidalgo Co.,

New Mexico, Mrs, I«.Veta Holladay,
bom LaVeta Damron. By first mar¬
riage there was a son, Dudley
Stauan Welker®, b, 11 Oct. 1932, at
Safford, Arizona. By second mar¬
riage there was a daughter, Corene
Welker®, b., 26 Nov. 191*2, at
Phoenix, Arizona.

Agnes Almeda Welker®, b., 19 Nov. 1867, at
Bloomington, Idaho; d., 5 Nov. 19ii3, in
Thatcher, Graham County, Arizona. She
m., 7 Apr. 1887, Heber Chase Layton, son
of Christopher Layton and his wife Rosa
Ann Hudson, He was b., 2 Nov. 1867, at
Kaysville, Davis Co., Utah; still living.
They had seven children.

Adam David Welker®, b., 7 Oct. 1869, at
Bloomington, Idaho; still living. He m. ,
Sabina Evelyn Smith on 21 Sept, 1892 at
Safford, Graham Co., Arizona, dau. of
Robert Adam Smith and his wife Mary Emma
Smithson. She was bom, 8 Apr. 1872, at
Washington, Washington Co., Utah; d., 29
Aug. 1992, at Compton, Los Angeles County
California. They had nine children,

Mary Almira Welker^, b., 9 Nov. 1871, at
Bloomington, Idaho and d., 9 July 191*8,
at Costa Mesa, Orange Co,, California.

She m., Benjamin Franklin Peel, on 6
Sept. 1888, at Safford, Graham Co., Ariz.

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Benjamin Franklin Peel was a son of
Benjamin Peel and his wife Nancy Turnbull.
He was b,, 1 Sept. I86I4, at Bountiful,
Davis Co., Utah; d., 9 Nov. 19U6 at Coeta
Mesa, Orange Co., California. They had
Eleven children.

(9) Mariam Alvira Welker*5, b. , 9 Nov. 1871, at
Bloomington, Idaho and died, 11 Oct. 191*2,
at Los Angeles, Calif. She ■•, Joseph
Ernest Westover, 26 Mar. 1090, at Safford,
Graham Co., Arlsona. Joseph Ernest West-
over was a son of Edwin faithwin Westover
and his wife Sarah Jane ;v.rwell. He was
b., 29 Feb. 1061i, at St. George, Washing¬
ton Co., Utah; d., 12 June 1991, at
Los Angeles, Calif. They had twelve
children.

(6) William Barnsley Welker*5, b., 6 March 107li ,

at Bloomington, Idaho; still living. He
n., 1L Nov. 1093» at S afford, Graham Co.,
Arizona, Mary Ella Wanslee, b., 19 Dsc.
1879 at Ozark, Frarklin Co., Ark.; d. 9
July 1996, at Phoenix, Arizona. She was
a dau. of Nathan Terry and faith (Moore)
Wanslee. They had seven children.

(7) John Arthur Welker^, b., 21 Apr. 1076, at

Bloomington, Idaho; still living 1996.

He married Mary Alice Quinn, on 28 Feb.
1901, at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona,
dmi . of James Berryman Quinn and his wife
Amanda Elizabeth Langston. She was bom,
29 June 1879, at Des Arc, Prairie Co.,
Arkansas; still living, 19 *»6. They had
five children.

(8) Euphemia May Welker , b. , 12 May 1878, at

Bloomington, Idaho; still living, 1996.
She m., Jacob Eberhart Zundel, 19 Sept.
1099, at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona,
son of Isaac Eberhart David Zundel and
his wife Elisabeth Jane Harding. He was
b., 19 Dec. 1871, at Plymouth, Box Elder

Co., Utah; died, 29 June 1990, at Phoenix,
Maricopa Co., Arizona. They had nine
children.

(9) Ida Luella Welker , b., 12 Aug. 1880, at
Bloomington, Idaho; d., 9 Apr. 1922, at
Safford, Graham Co., Arizona. She m. ,
Joseph Henry Bingham, on 30 Nov. 19Qh, at
Safford, Graham Co., Arizona, son of
Joseph Bingham and his wife Ellen Eliza¬
beth Clifford. He was b., 23 Dec. 1881,
at St. David, Cochise Co., Arizona and
died, 28 Dec. 1993, at Safford, Graham
Co., Arizona. They had five children.

(10) Raymond Alexander Welker^, b. , 19 June

1882, at Bloomington, Idaho; d., 13 May
193U, at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona,

He m. , Ona Belle (Bell?) McAllister, 30
Nov. 190U, at Safford, Graham Co., Ariz.,
dau. of Robert Luther McAllister and his
wife Mahala Scrogham. She was b., 31
Dec. 1889, at Mount Eden, Spencer Co.,
Kentucky; d., 3 Sept. 1999, at Safford,
Graham Co., Arizona. They had seven
children. ^

(11) Elmer Adophus Welker , b., 1 Dec. 188U, at

Safford, Graham Co., Arizona; still
living, 1996. He m., Mary Ellen (Nellie)
Bingham, on 6 Jan. 1909, at Safford,
Graham Co., Arizona, dau. of Joseph
Bingham and his wife Ellen Elizabeth
Clifford. She was b., 23 Oct. 1888, at
St. David, Cochise Co., Arizona and is
still living, 1996. They had seven
children.

(12) Charles Delbert Welker , b., 6 Aug. 1887,

at Safford, Graham Co., Arizona; still
living, 1996. He m. , Lola Leah Fonda,
on 29 Dec. 1909, at Safford, Graham Co.,
Arizona, dau. of William Bridendall Fonda
and Leah Lois Robinson. She was b., 20
Dec. 1889 at Safford, Graham Co., Ariz.

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They had five children.

(!i) John W. Stoker , b.f 16 March 1802, In Aahe Co., N.C. ;
d., 2 Aug. 1857, at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa. He n., 13 March 1827, Sarah McDaniel,
b., 26 May 1806 (1600), in Raccoon Township of Gallia
Co., Ohio; d., 7 May 1857, in Pottawattamie Co., Iowi.
She was a dau. of Janes and Zlbiah (McCarley) McDaniel.
(Family records and epitaphs in the cemetery east of
Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.)

1*

The children of John W. Stoker and his wife Sarah
McDaniel were :

(1) John Randolph Stoker , b., 21 Feb. 1828, in

Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 23
Dec. I81i7.

(2) Ziblah Merlba Stoker , b. , 13 Aug. 1829, in

Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 20
July 1902; m. Martin Ford.

(3) Katherine Martha Stoker^, b., lla April 1832, in

Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d.,
date not found; m. Albert Orlando Hastings
Bowen.

(li) Sllsabeth Jane Stoker^, b., 3 Sept. l83ii, in
Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. , 2
Wov. 1925; ». Mr. Thomas.

(5) Parley P. Stoker^, b., 2 Jan. 1837, in Bloom¬

field Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. Feb. 1900.

(6) William Eller Stoker^, b., L Jan. I8ij0, in

Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio or in
Adams County, Illinois; d., 25 March 1881.

(7) Sophronla Clive Stoker , i,t 7 Nov. 161a2, in

Hancock County, Ill.; d., 25 Nov. 19 Ik; a.,

16 Nov. 186 2, Eli Kilboume.

(5) Michael Stoker^, b., 10 Feb. 1805 in Ashe Co., N. C.;
death date not found. He married, about 1826 or
early 1629, Martha McDaniel, b., 2ii Feb. 1806 in
Raccoon Twsp. of Gallia Co., Ohio; d., U Feb. 1673
in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Her gravestone in
cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa says she died
It Feb. 1873, aged 6 L years, U months and 10 days
which would make her date of birth 2lj Sept. 1608.

She was a dau, of James and Zibiah (McCarley)
McDaniel. (Family, cemetery and church records,)

The children of Michael Stoker^ and his wife Martha
McDaniel were:

(1) Gabriel McNeil Stoker5, b., 23 Oct. 1829 in

Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d, 10
June 1892 (gravestone) or lb May 1892. (Family
Records.)

(2) David Nathan Stoker , b. , 2 Feb, 1832, in Bloom¬

field Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 17 June
1892 (gravestone) or 23 May 1892 (Gen. Soc,
records).

(3) William Moroni Stoker , b. , 10 July 183b in

Bloomfield Twsp* of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 10
Sept. 1929; m. , Lora Clark Robbins.

(b) John Alexander Stoker^, b., 23 Aug. 1837, proba¬
bly in Caldwell Co., Missouri; d., 9 Sept*

1918 in Baker, Oregon; m. Mary Keefe,

(9) Michael James Stoker^, b. 23 May I8b0 at Columbus
Adams Co., Illinois; d., 23 July 1922*

(6) Jared Samuel Stoker^, b., 19 March l8b3 in Han¬

cock Co., Illinois; d. , 6 Dec. 1912 in Union,
Oregon; m. Minnie E. Dargaard.

(7) Joseph Toahil (?) Stoker^, b. , 26 April I8b6, in

Hancock Co*, Illinois; d., 2b Nov, 1921*

(8) Martha Rebecca Stoker^, b. , 1 Jan. I8b9 in Pot-

tawattomie Co., Iowa; d., 19 Oct. 1871 and
buried east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Pot-
tawattomie County, Iowa.

Rebecca Stoker^, b. , 19 March 1807. Killed accidently
at age lb. .

Catherine Stoker , b., 19 Feb. 1809, in Ashe Co., N.C.;
d., 23 Aug. I896, in Gallia County, Ohio. She mar¬
ried, 1 Jan, 1829, in Jackson County, Ohio, Alex¬
ander Lackey, b., lb Feb. 1803, in Virginia; d., 22
Sept. 1879, in Jackson County, Ohio. He was a son
of James and Easter Lackey who, after a short period
of living in Gallia County, Ohio, moved on to Jack-
son County and settled in Bloomfield Township in
1806. They were one of the very first families to
settle permantly in the county. Family accounts of

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Catherine Lackey attest to the beauty and f i ranees
of her character and the yonder of her handiwork, A
lumber of pieces of the Latter are now precious pos¬
sessions of her descendants. She was living at her
son Michael9* home at the tlae of her death.

Children of Catherine Stoker* and her husband, Alex¬
ander Lackey, all bom in Jackson County, Ohio, weret

(1) Rebecca Lackey^, b., 18 Oct, 1829; d, , Lb April

1900, in Jackson Co., Ohio, She 21 Oct,
1892, Amos Davis and had children;

(1) A Imari n is Deris6, b, and d, in 1893.

(?) Infant Devit^ b. 18*^,

(3) William Davis , died unmarried,

(b) Chios Devia6, died unmarried,

(9) Fia Davie6, died uimarrled,

(6) James S. Davis6, b. 1872/73.

(2) Almarlnda Prances Lackey^, b, 29 June 1631; d.,

21 June 1891, in Jackson Co,, Ohio; a,, 17 Oct,
1890, Harrison Scurlock, She died at the birth
of her first child who also did not survive,

(3) Jaaes Ephrodidua Lackey \ b, 6 Feb, 1833 1 d. 6

Dec, 1897; a, 1st,, 29 Aug,, 1899* Mary A,

Sharp, d, 10 July 1881, She was a dan . of
Caleb and Mary Sharp, He a, 2nd,, lb March
188?, Matilda A, Jones, The History of Lower
Scioto Valley, Ohio by Interstate Pub, Co,,
Chicago, 188b, gives an account of hia, saying
that he was a practical and successful farasr
in Bloomfield Township of Jackson County, Ohio
and that he served as trustee of Bloomfield
Township 1869 to 187^ and from 1882 to 1883,

He had two children both by his first wife,

(1) Leonidas Frank Lackey6, a, Dora Davis and
had five children, (1) James M, Davis?,
a, Margaret Rudsoni (2) Sherman Davis who
lived probably In the State of Washington;
(3) Valter Davis7, a, Frances Williams ;

(b) Homer Davis', d, urmarrled; (9) Onas
Davis7, d, urmarrled; (6) Emile Davis7
who a, Wilmer Jones,

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(2) Laura Lackey , m., 1st., William Harkins;
m., 2nd., Mr. Jonas. Children, (1)
Charles Harkins^, m. Jennie Davis; (2)
Jfyrtle Harkins^, m., 1st., Everett Rose,
m., 2nd., David C. Davis; (3) Jesse
Harkins .

(I*) Michael Onesimus Lackey , b. 1 Feb. 1836; d. 18
Oct. 1906; m., 23 Dec, 1869, Ann C. Jones, dau.
of John J, and Betsy Jones. He served in the
Civil War. He had but one child;

(1) Louella Lackey , m. Thomas McCarley, They
had children, (1) Ethel McCarley (2)
Elmer McCarley^ who m. Wilma Davis; (3)
Mary Mildred McCarley^who m. Ralph
Palmer,

(9) Elveann Lackey-’, b, 2k May 181*1; d., h March
1861*, of typhoid fever,

(6) Chloe Lackey^, b. 2l* Feb. 181*6; d. , 27 Dec,

186b. of typhoid fever,

(8) Jacob Stoker^, b., 7 April 1812, in Ashe Co., N. C.;

d., 22 Feb. 1893, at Adelaida, San Luis Obispo Co.,
California. He m., 8 Oct. 1835, in Lawrence Co.,
Ohio, Catherine Burcham, b., 11* Aug. 1817, in
Lawrence Co., Ohio; d,, 28 Aug. 1898, at Adelaida,
California. He lies burled at Sims Ranch and she
at San Miguel, both places in San Luis Obispo Co,,
Calif. She was a dau. of John and Nancy Burcham,
According to family records which give the dates
and places of birth of their eleven children they
lived, prior to settling in California, successively
in Caldwell Co., Missouri, Adams Co., Ill., Hancock
Co., Ill., Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, Harrison Co.,

Iowa and Mills Co., Ia*a. An account in a county
record book of San Iuis ODispo Co., California, pub¬
lished in 1917, which recorded the marriage, 18 Nov.
1870, of their daughter Adeline Melissa Etta Stoker
to Isaac Sims, says the family consisting of the
parents and five children left Council Bluffs, Iowa
(Pottawattamie County) by ox team in 1859 and
travelled as far as Salt Lake City, Utah where they
spent the winter. In the spring of i860 they moved

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on to Placerville, California and later in the same
year to a ranch near Sacramento. From here they re¬
moved to Nevada and in late years lived with their
daughter Mrs. Isaac Sims in San Luis Obispo County,
California where both died and are buried.

The children of Jacob Stoker* and his wife Catherine
Burcham were :

(1) John Stoker^, b., 11 Feb. 1837; d., 13 Aug. 1839,

In Adame Co., Ill.

(2) Nancy Stoker^, b., 21 I*ec. 1838, in Caldwell Co.,

Mo.; d. , 27 Sept. 1920, in San Jose, Calif.;

25 March 1857, Mr. Traver, prob. William Traver.

(3) Joseph Stoker^, b. and d., 3 Hay 18U1, In Adams

Co., Illinois.

(li ) Hiram Stoker'’, b., 7 April 161,2 or 13, 1« Hancock
Co., Ill.; d., 16 June 1925, at Lovelock,

Nevada; m., 7 March 1869, Cornelia Virginia
Stauts, b., 15 May 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.;
d., 22 July 1915, at Lovelock, Nevada. She was
a dau. of William R. and Hannah (Spencer) Stauta
who left their home in Philadelphia in 1862
travelling by train to the end of the new rail¬
road at Florence and then by ox team to Carson
City, Nevada, pausing on the way, for a short
time, at Salt Lake City. They then jourrwyed
on to Empire, Nevada, finally settling a few
miles east of Carson City. Here she met and
married Hiram Stoker who was carrying on a
profitable teamster business. The family lived
in Palisade and then in Bullion, Nevada and in
1888 settled in Elko. Here the family lived
until 1892 when it removed to Lovelock Valley
in Pershing County, Nevada where it settled
upon 2l0 acres of uni proved land that became
one of the oounty's most prominent and prosper¬
ous ranches.

Hiram Stoker was a prominent cltlxen in all
places where he lived. He started his team¬
ster's enterprise in Sacramento, California
where he hauled the foundation stones for the

State Capitol and conducted a freight service
between Sacramento, California and Virginia
City, Nevada, He was an ardent Lincoln sup¬
porter and took an active interest in state
and national politics. On his Lovelock Valley
ranch he cleared land, built canals to distri¬
bute water to them and was the inventor of the
then famous Lovelock Valley hay loader and
other farm equipment*

The children of Hiram Stoker^ and his wife,
Cornelia Virginia Stauts were:

(1) Charles H. Stoker^, b. , 13 July 1870, at

Empire, near Carson City, Nevada; d, ,

11 Nov, 19li9 at Lovelock, Nevada, He m,,
11 Feb* 1896, at Lovelock, Nevada, dairy
Elaine Marker, b, July 1875; d* Nov, 19 1*0.
She was a dau, of Pete and Betty (Bars tow)
Marker* Their children were, (1) Alton
Stoker?, b, Nov, 1897; d. Feb. I898; (2)
Wayne Stoker?, b* 15 July 1900; m., 1921*,
Iva Johnson; (3) A son Stoker?, b* 19
June 1906; m. Kitty; (1*) Lorraine Stoker^
b, 22 Feb, 1911; m. Carl Hightower; (5)
Elliot Stoker?, b, Feb. 1913; d. Dec.

1911*; (6) Dolly Stoker?, b. 8 Oct. 1915;
d. 8 Feb. 1932; (7) Clion ? Stoker?, b.

2l* Aug. 1920; m., 13 Jan. 1937, Monroe
Miller*

(2) George C. Stoker , b., 1* June 1872, at

Palisade, Eureka Co., Nevada; d., 8 Nov.
191*7, at Lovelock, Nevada. He m. , 22
Dec.1899, Anna Toyn, b., ll* Dec. 1873,
near Elko, Nevada; d., 5 June 1951*, at
Winnemucca, Humboldt Co., Nevada. She
was a dau. of Charles and Harriet
(Porcher) Toyn. Their children were,

(1) Pearl J. Stoker?, b. 12 Nov. 1900:
m. George Martel; (2) Clarence Stoker ,
b. 15 Feb. 1902; m., 1 Nov. 1925, Clara
Laca ?; (3) Evelyn Stoker?, b. 3 Aug.

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190L; *., 27 July 1926, Mr. Weber; (li)
Vernon Stoker7, b. 29 March 1906; d. 26
May 1911; ®., 1st., 16 Oct. 1932, Velna
Simpson; m. 2nd., Lois Christenson.

Bert E. Stoker , t., 2? March 1671, at
Bullion, Elko Co., Nevada; d. 7 March
19L1, at Reno, Nevada; m., 1st., 11 Dec.
1699, Elaine Campbell, b., i860, at Fort
Hallock, Elko Co., Nevada; d., 15 Oct.
1900. She was a dau. of James and
Matilda (Abel) Campbell. He n., 2nd.,

17 Feb. 1911, Lillian A. Lodge, b., 29
Jan. i860, at Washoe Valley, Washoe Co.,
Nevada; d. 27 Jan. 1953* She was a dau.
of David and Martha (Perkins) Lodge.

Child by first marriage with Elaine
Campbells

(1) Arthur V. Stoker7, b., 12 Oct. 1900,

at Lovelock, Nevada; d. , 26 Dec.
1936; a., Apr. 1921, bunry Juel
(Jenel or Jewel).

Children by second marriage with Lillian
A. Lodges

(2) Robert L. Stoker7, b., 12 Aug. 1913,

at Reno, Nevada; m., 17 March 1939,
Zoe Hanson.

(3) Helen E. Stoker , b., 11 May 1919*

at Lovelock, Nevada; ■«, 26 March
19lil, Reno Ferretto.

Addle J. Stoker^, b., 3 Aug. 1676, at
Million, Elko Co., Nevada. She did not
marry. 6

William A. Stoker , b., 3 Feb. 1878, at
Bullion, Elko Co., Nevada; d. 27 June
1916.

Coral C, Stoker , b., ?3 Feb. 1883, at
Million, Elko Co., Nevada; d. 5 May 1937;
m., 5 May 1908, Amo L. Bachrodt.

Harry I. Stoker^, b., 1 April 1888, at
Million, Elko Co., Nev.d, 23 June 1688.

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(9)

(5) America Stoker^, b., 16 Jan. 181*6, in Hancock Co.,

Ill. 5 d., 7 May 181*7, in Pottawattamie Co.,
Iowa.

(6) George Washington Stoker , b., 18 Feb. 181*8, in

Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d. 5 Feb. 1937, at
San Miguel, California; m., 18 Aug. 1871, Sarah
Jane Downing. ^

(7) Adeline Melissa Etta Stoker , b. , 2 Nov. 181*9, in

Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d. , 1930, in San Jose,
California; m., 18 Nov. 1870, Isaac Sims. Both
lie buried in the cemetery at San Miguel, Calif.
Isaac Sims was bom in Indiana in 1838, the
l*th child of Matthew Sims who removed to Calif,
in 1857 in what was called the Capt, Derby
train. ^

(8) Peter Stoker , b., 18 Dec. 1851, in Pottawattamie

Co., Iowa; d. Dec. 1851#

(9) Julia Stoker^, b. 18 Dec. 1851, twin with Peter;

d., 25 May 1853, in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.

(10) King E. Stoker^, b., 5 Aug. 1855, in Harrison

Co., Iowa; d., 193h, in California; m. , 1881*,
Ella Dover*

(11) Margaret Stoker^, b., 8 Jan. 1857, in Mills Co.,

Iowa; d., 7 Feb. 1876, in Carson City, Nevada;
m,, 25 Aug. 1873, William Withrew. Known
child (1) Arthur L. Witherew.

Eller Stoker^, b., 28 July 1816, in Jackson Co., Ohio;
d. 18 July 1855 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. He m.,
1939, Margaret Judd, b. 29 May 1822, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C,; d. 20 Nov. 1893 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.

She was a dau. of John and Rhoda (Shepherd) Judd.
(Sources of data on this family, the 1850 Federal
Census of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa and Histories of
that county published in 1883 and 1891, also cemetery,
church and Stoker family records.)

The children of Eller Stoker and his wife Margaret
Judd were: c

(l) Orson Ifyde Stoker , b. 25 Jan. 181*3 in Illinois;
d. 11* Jan. 1908. He married but wifefs name

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not found*

(2) David Allen StokerC, b. 29 Dec. 1811 in Illinois;

d. 15 Jan. 1929; m. Alice Whitinger.

(3) Lavlna Stoker^, b. 10 Dec. 1816 in Pottawattamie

Co., Iowa; d. 19 Jan. 1916; m. Willlan Spears,
b. Sept. 1836 in Mercer Co., Penna.; d. Jan.
1911 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.

(1) Michael E. Stoker'', b. 26 Feb. 1819 in Pottawat¬
tamie Co., Iowa; d* 18 Nov. 1929; m. Laura
tfld te .

(5) Mary Elisabeth Stoker , b. 18 Feb. 1850 in Pot¬

tawattamie Co., Iowa; d* 20 Jan. 1936; m.
William Sheen or Shene*

(6) Margaret Calpemia Stokerr, b. 7 Oct. 1851 (prob.

1853) , in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d* 19 Sept*
1933 at Council Bluffs, Iowa? ■., 5 March 1871,
George Spears, b. 6 April 1813 in Illinois; d*
27 Nov. 1919.

(7) Lucretia StokerC, b* 26 Mav 1855 in Pottawattamie

Co., Iowa; d. 28 Aug. 1911; n. 16 April, about
1878, William Heilman.

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PETER ELLER JR.

Son of Peter Eller, Family II, p. 17.

FAMILY VIII 3 2 1

PETER ELLER JR. , (Peter , George Michael ) was born

about 1778; d. on his farm on Ceroles Creek in Wilkes County,
North Carolina, November 18 £1. The 1850 Federal Census of
Wilkes County gives him the age of 72 years. He married
Mary Anne Pennington, b. 1782 and in 1870, at the age of 88,
was living with her daughter Mary Anne Cooper. (1870 Fed,
Census of Wilkes Co., N. C.) She was a daughter of William
Pennington who entered 300 acres of land on the North Fork
of New River, 23 December 1779, but whether he lived on the
land that early or not is not clear# William Pennington
died about 1810 and William Pennington Jr# and Peter Eller^
were appointed his administrators. On 2 July 1812 Peter
Eller^ and William Pennington, administrators of William
Pennington, deceased, sold to Joseph Colwell (Colvard) of
Ashe County, land that had been granted to William Penning¬
ton by the state of North Carolina, 15 December 1798.

William Pennington was given two grants of land in
Wilkes County, N. C#, both in the North fork of New River.
One of these grants was for 50 acres and the other for 200
acres and dated 20 Dec. 1791 and 15 Dec# 1798 respectively.
(Grants #12l*8 and #1795, Secy, of State’s office, Raleigh.)
Survey for the 50 acre tract was ordered 2 May 1788 and the
survey made 1* Jan. 1789# The land apparently was that or
part of the tract that was entered by William Pennington,

23 Dec. 1779. (Wilkes Co. Land Entries on film at the
Genealogical Society, Utah in Salt Lake City.)

On 30 November 1805 forty two acres of land were grant¬
ed to Peter Eller^ on Long Shoal Creek at Pennington’s
Comer. This land had been entered by Peter Eller 26 Sept.
1802. (Grant 560 Secy, of State’s office, Raleigh, N. C.)

On 21 October 1809 Peter Eller^ entered another tract of
land in Ashe County on "fenix" (Phoenix) Creek containing
150 acres and received a grant for it 1* Dec# 1811. (Grant
No# 71*0, Secy, of State’s Office, Raleigh, N. C.) Both of
these grants obviously were to Peter Eller Jr.^ and both
located on the North Fork of the New River near where
William Pennington lived#

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On 31 July 1822, Peter Ellei^, then living in Wilkes
County, bought of Edmond James, for $100.00, one hundred
acres of land in Ashe County on Phoenix Creek,

Peter Eller^, removed to Wilkes County about 1016 and
settled on Ceroles Creek. He is shown in the 1810 Federal
Census of Ashe County at age between 26 and 1*5 with wife of
same age and two female and two male children all under 10
years. In the 1020 census of Wilkes County Peter Eller and
his wife each aged between ?6 and US are shown with one
male, aged 16*26, one male, aged 16*18, two males 10*16, one
female 10*16, two females and 2 males each under 10. In the
1850 census Peter Eller is shown, aged 72 with wife Mary,
aged 59 flic (otviously an error and probably should oe aged
69) and living with them was a female, aged 7, a grandchild
probably, daughter of George and Mary (Minton) Eller.

The children of Peter Eller and his wife Mary Penning¬
ton were*

(1) William Eller , (Pooty Billy) b. 1001, by the 16*10 and

1003, by the i860 and 1870 census*. He m. Sarah

(Sally) McGlemery, b. 1005. Children, according to

1050 census of Wilkes Co., N. C. and family record*

were i

(1) Peter Eller , b. April 1827. The i860 census of

Wilkes Co. shows Peter Eller, aged 35 and his
wife Amanda, aged 20 and child Henry, aged 5.

The 1870 census shows Peter Eller, aged with
wife Amanda, aged 31 and with children, (1)
Henry H. Eller , aged 15; (2) Sarah Eller ,
aged 8; (3) William Eller , aged 6 and (li)
Margaret Eller^, aged 2.

(2) Nancy Eller^, b. 1830.

(3) William Eller'*, b. 1831, according to 1850 census

and 1035 by the i860 census. Died in Confed*
erate Service in war between the states. Never
married.

(I4) David Eller , b. 103b; m. Ary. The 1060 census

of Wilkes Co. shows a David Eller, aged 29 with
wife Mary, aged ?8 and no children. He is not
shown in the 1870 census. Family memory says
he removed to Terra Haute, Indiana after the

Civil War.

(?) Mary Eller5, b. 1836.

(6) Alpha Jane Eller5, b., by 18?0 Census in 1836/37,

and by family records, b. 27 Feb. 1839; d, 17
April 1906; m. William Columbus Fletcher, b.

11 June I8I1O; d. 27 April 1897, aged 56 yrs.,

10 mo. and 16 days. Children, (1) Joshua Vance
Fletcher^ (2) Margaret Virginia Fletcher;^ (3)
William Eller Fletcher/2 (U) Columbus Cicero
Fletcher/2 ( 5) Louise Jane Fletcher/’ d. in
infancy; (6) Benjamin Franklin Fletcher (7)
Rebecca Letitia Fletcher; ^(8) Alpha Elizabeth
Fletcher;^ (9) Thomas Jefferson Fletcher; 6( 10)
Winfield Scott Fletcher/2 m. Ruby Barnes, widow
of Neil Pendley. No children. He supplied
the William Ellei^1 record.

(7) Henry Harrison Eller'’, b. l8Uu

(8) Caroline Ellen Eller^, m. Mr. Cummins. Family

lived in Georgia.

David Eller^. This son is said to have married and
settled in Iredell Co., N. C. The Federal Census of
that county in 1830 shows a David Eller, aged between
30— U0 with a wife aged 20-30 and with a family of 3
males and 1 female all under 10 years of age. If he
was the son of Peter Eller Jr. it is likely that his
age was between 20-30 rather than between 30-ir0. He
is not shown in any later census.

Martha Eller1* ra., 8 Sept. 1823, Elijah Mitchell.
Susanna Ellen4, m., licence issued in Wilkes Co., 30
Oct., 1823, David McGlemery.

Jacob Ellen4, b. I807j m., licence issued in Wilkes Co.,
16 Oct. 1833, Mary Ann Sears, b. 1811. Their child¬
ren as shown in the 1850 census of Wilkes Co., N. C.
were 2

(1) Henry Eller , aged 13 in 1850 census. The 1870

census of Wilkes County shows a family of Henry
Eller^, aged 3U, with wife Martha, aged 33* and
children as follows, (1) Elizabeth Eller^, aged
13j (2) Joseph D. Eller^, aged 10; (3) Henry C.
Eller^, aged 8; (U) Martha Eller^, aged 6; (5)
Susanna Eller^, aged U and (6) Benjamin Eller ,

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aged 1.

(2) Ann Eller , aged 9 In 1890 census.

(3) Jacob Eller'*, aged 7 in 1850 census. The 1870

census of Wilkes Co. shows a Jacob H. Eller \
aged 27, with wife Elisabeth of sane age and
with children as follows, (1) Julia A. Eller",
aged b and (2) Fanny C. Eller^, aged 1.

(U) Meredith Eller*, aged 1 in 1850 census.

(5) There may hare oeen other children.

(6) n*lil« Ellar*4, b. 1812} m., U Aug. 1828, Olirer KcNiel3,

b. 1808. He was a son of James^ and Mary (Shepherd)
McNiel, (Rer. George McNiel*)# (See McNiel Family,
p, liOii . ) Their children as shown in the 1850 census
of Wilkes Co., K. C. were:

(1) Janes McNiel, aged 20 in 1850 census.

(2) Harriett McNiel, aged 18 in 1850 census.

(3) Olacr (Oliver), aged 16 in 1850 census.

(to Eli McNiel, aged 1L in IP ^nsus.

(5) Rebecca McNiel, aged 8 in 1850 census.

(6) William NoRUl| aged $ in 1850 census.

(7) George Eller^, b. 1812, twin apparently of Delila nert.

above. George Eller was Issued a licence in Wilkes
Co., 2 L July 181*5, to marry Mary Minton, o. 1823/21*.
She evidently was his 2nd. wife because of older
children that family records say he had. His child¬
ren were t

(1) Bethlna Eller‘s m. licence Issued in Wilkes Co.,

26 Oct. 181*8, Alfred A. Minton.

(2) Jesse H. Eller1', m. , licence issued 10 Jan. 1850,

Mary C. Wilcoxson. The i860 census of Wilkes
Co. shows a Jesse Eller, aged 28 with wife
Caroline, aged 25 and children as follows; (1)
Mary Eller^, aged 9; (2) Margaret Eller^, aged
7, and (3) Juliana Eller^, aged 3«

(3) Delphia M. Eller*, m. 17 Jan. 1862, Elbert

Morrison McOlemery.

(1*) Susanna Eller*', age 13 in 1850 Federal Census,
probably a daughter.

(5) William EllerC, age 1* in 1850 Federal Census.

(6) Caroline Filer1', age 3 in 1850 Federal Census.

(7) Phella Eller*', age 1 in 1850 Federal Census.

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(8) Phinehas Eller^, aged 10 in i860 and 18 in 1870
census. He and Phelia, next above, may be the
same*

(9) Mary Ann Eller , aged 8 in the 1870 census.

(10) Lowry Eller-% aged 5 in the 1870 census*

(8) Henry Eller^, m., licence issued in Wilkes Co*, h Apr.

1832, Margaret Alby.

(9) Elizabeth Eller^, m., licence issued in Wilkes Co., 10

Jan. 1832, Absolom Wheeler*

(10) Katherine Eller^, m., licence issued in Wilkes Co*, 13

Jan. 1835. Abraham E. Nichols.

(11) Nancy Eller^. The 1850 census of Wilkes Co. show a

Nancy Eller, age 36 living alone, as head of a family,
in Wilkes Co. with eight children as shown below.

She is said to have retained her maiden name for both
herself and children after their father disappeared.

(1) James Eller aged 10 in 18 50 census. A James

Y. Eller is shown in the 1870 census, aged 28
with wife Delilah, aged 2h and children, (1)
Joel A. Eller^, aged 5 and Mary E. Eller^,
aged 1.

(2) Leander Eller , aged 8 in 1850 census.

(3) Lafayette Eller^, aged 6 in 1850 census* His

gravestone says b. 1839; d. 1919. He m. 1st.,
Sarah Carolina Vannoy^, b. 12 June 181*8; d. 13
May 18 7b, dau. of Abraham Wesley Vannoy^*

( Jesse Nathaniel^1, John^, Francis^, John^).
Family removed to Wapello Co., Iowa. No child¬
ren who grew to maturity. Both lie buried in
the Competine, Iowa cemetery one half mile east
of Farson, Wapello Co., Iowa. He m. 2nd. Aba-
gail Phelps, dau. of BenJ. and Jane (McCall)
Phelps, but had no children who grew to matu¬
rity. -

(1*) Nancy Eller , aged 1* in 1850 census. Probably
same as Addelaid Eller, age 13 shown in the
i860 census.

(5) Mary Eller'’, aged 1 in 1850 census.

(6) Jacob Eller^, aged 8 in i860 census.

(7) J. W. Eller^, aged 6 in i860 census.

(8) Henderson Eller aged 1* in i860 census.

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(12) Mary Anne (Polly) Eller , youngest child. She m. John
Cooper who predeceased her. The 1870 Federal census
of Wilkes Co. shows her at age IS as head of a family
with the following children living with her.

(1) Josephine Cooper'’, aged 19 in 1870 census.

(2) Martha Cooper^, aged 17 in 1870 census*

(3) Thomas Cooper'’, aged IS in 1870 census.

(li) Mary Cooper C , aged 13 in 1870 census.

(5) George Cooper'', aged 11 in 1870 census.

(6) John Cooper^, aged 8 in 1870 census.

(7) Nathan Cooper'’, aged $ in 1870 census.

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JACOB ELLER

Son of Peter Eller, Family II, P* 17.

FAMILY IX n

3 2 1

JACOB ELLER , (Peter , George Michael ). Statements

concerning the birth year of Jacob Eller are confusing*

Family memory says he died 3 November 1855 at the age of

n about 83 • " The 1850 census of Ashe County, N. C. gave him

the age of 66 and his wife Catherine the age of 61. This

writer believes that family memory overstated his age by

about ten years and accepts a birth year of 1783 or 1781*.

His view is supported by the earlier census records of Ashe

County which give him the age of between 26 and 1*5 in 1810

and 1820, between 1*0- 50 in 1830 and between 50 and 60 in

181*0. He is not shown in the 1800 census. Jacob Eller^

married, about l80l*/05, Catherine White, b. 1788/1789; d.

3 Jan. 1851*, dai. probably of Luke White. Her age in the

1850 census of Ashe County was given as 61. Her age in

1810 census was between 16 and 26, in 1820 between 26 and

1*5, in 1830 and 181*0 between 1*0 and 50.

Jacob Eller3 first appears in Ashe County records 27

Nov. 1806 when, with his brother Peter Eller^, he witnessed

the survey of 150 acres to Michael Stucker (Stoker), his

brother-in-law probably. On 7 July 1809, as an heir at law

of Peter Eller, deceased, he signed a deed disposing of

land to Leonard Fantz. (Deed Book M, p. 163, Ashe Co.)

He signed other similar deeds, 17 Sept. 1816 and 11 Feb*

1817. (Deed Book F, pp. 83 and l*ll*, Ashe Co.) In 1811 a

deed of his to Alexander Smith for 15 acres of land was

acknowledged by the November 1811 Court. (Deed Book F, p,

109, Ashe Co., N. C.)

Jacob Eller-5, was a witness in the suit of North
Carolina vs. lewis Jones and was bound in the sum of 50
pounds by the November 1815 Court to assure his appearance*
Jacob Eller^ was living, 1815, on land called Rich
Bend located at the confluence of Mill Creek and the north
fork of New River in Ashe County, and was still living
there at the time of his death. He was a well-to-do farmer
for his time and left considerable property to his children.
Both he and his wife lie buried in the family cemetery
located on his home farm.

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The ten children of Jacob Eller" and his wife Catherine
White, order of birth not certain, were :

(1) Luke Ellei^*, b. 8 June 1806; d. 6 Dec. 1883; n., li¬
cence issued in Ashe Co., N. C., 27 March 1829, Sarah
King, b. 9 May 1810; d. 10 Jan. 1892. Her mother
doubtless was the Patsy King who, according to the
i860 census of Ashe Co., N. C., was living in the
family of Luke and Sarah Eller at the age of 72.

Luke and Sarah (King) Eller lived in Ashe Co., N. C.
and had children;

(1) Delilah Eller**, b. 2h Jan. 1830. (Bible record)

Her age was given as 20 in the 1890 census.

She married John Baker.

Childrent

(1) Joseph Baker^.

(2) Etna baker6.

(3) Ella 3ak«r6.

(It) Quincy l ake r6.

(2) Wllliaa A. Eller1’, b. 8 April 1832. (Blbl.

Record) He died young.

(3) A swell Peter Eller , b. 21 Nov. 183J*. (Bible

Record) He married 1st., Nancy Dlxson and
after her death married Mary Ann Turner. He
was a soldier in the Confederate Anqr in the
War Between the States. He was a farmer in
Ashe County and said to have had a family of 3
sons and 8 daughters. The i860 and 1870 census
of Ashe County shows him at ages 29 and 35
respectively with wife aged 21 and 28 respec¬
tively (error obviously) and with children as
noted below, all by first marriage.

(1) Irabella Eller , b. 1899. Aged 8 mo. in

i860 census.

(2) Ladema tile/*, b. i860. Aged 10 in 1870

census. Family records say she married
Dr, M. Blevins.

(3) Victoria Eller^, b. 1862. Aged 8 in the

1870 census.

(li) Mary Eller , b. 1866. Aged Ji in the 1870
census. Family record! say she m. Dr.

Manley Bevins (Blevins)*

(5>) Willis Hansford Eller , b. 1868. Aged 2
in the 1870 census* He never married,

(6) James Luke Eller^, b. 1870* Aged 3 months

in 1870 census* He married Miss Thorpe,

(7) Addie Eller^, who married James Vannoy,

(Family records)

(8) Sally Eller^, who married Jacob Eller.

(Family records)

(9) Eunice Eller^, who married Obe Hayes,

(Family records)

(10) Lizzie Eller^. (Family records)

Children by second marriage: (Family records)

(11) Rosa Eller^.

(12) Lula Eller^, m. James Nichols,

(13) Cleveland Eller^.

(h) Hansford Eller^, b. 2f> April 181*1 (Bible Record).
He married Catherine Graybeal. He was a
soldier of the Confederacy in the war between
the states. The 1870 census of Wilkes Co.,

N. C, and family records say they had children
as follows, order of birth not certain;

(1)

(2)

(3)

(M

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)
(9)

Emily Eller , b. 1867* Aged 3 in the 1870
census. She married James Maxwell.

Sarah (Sallie) Eller^, b. 1868. Aged 2 in
1870 census. She married Lee Jones,
Henderson Aswell Eller^, b. 1869* Aged 1
in the 1870 census. He married Nancy
(Nannie) Sullivan.

Victoria Eller^, m. Henry Stacy.

A 1 vert a Eller^, m, Jesse Roland.

Joseph L. Eller0, m. Sarah Osborne,

Walter Like Eller^, m. Margarete Welch.
Calvin T. Eller^. He did not marry.

Emory Eller^. Twin of next below. He

never married,

(10) Emmett Eller^. Twin of next above. He
never married,

(£) Mary Catherine Eller^, b. 18 May l8Ui. (Bible

Record) She married Marshall baker.

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Children:

(1)

(2)

tt James Baker ,

6 ,

Ida Martish Baker ,
m. 2nd., Mr. Millix.
(3) Alice Vertigan Baker^

(U) Arthur Hansford Baker

i

(5)

(6)

Robert Preston Baker
Virginia Bak.r6

, Maggie Sutherland.
1st. Claude Foster)

m. Mr. McEwen.

I

m. Maid Bower.

(6) Nancy EllerC, b. 27 March 18L7) d. 22 March

1875.

(7) Joseph U Eller , b. 10 June 1851) d. 26 March
1911; *., 22 Sept. 1875, Elitabeth Kirby, b.
15 Feb. 1851.

Children:

(1) Nancy (Nannie) Eller^, b. U July 1876; d.

1 March 1<>56; 1< Feb. 1<>05, J. W.

Welch and resides at Fort Pierce, Florida.

Children:

(1) John George Welch , b. 1 July 1906.

(2) Nancy Luola Welch^, b. 25 Oct. 1908.

(3) ftith Walch7, b. 6 S.pt. l<s 11.

(L) Forda Welch?, b. 2 July 19 1L.

(5) Jeanette T, Welch", b. 18 Sept. 1918.

(2) Kirby Luke Eller6, b. 1 April 1878; a. U

March 1903» Lula Johnson, b. 15 Oct.

1881, dmi. of Z. T. Johnson, late of
Creaton, N. C. Family lives at Warrens-
ville, N. C, He was appointed feirsl
Mall Carrier in 1905 and for more than
35 years served his community from the
P. 0. at Clifton, N. C. He supplied the
data of this family as well as the birth
dates of the children of his grandparents,
Luke and Sarah (King) Eller.

Children:

(1) Eugene Vaughn Eller , b. 6 May 190b)

m. Clyde Roland. He is a school
teacher since 1928. Issue, one
daughter, Betty Jean Eller*

(2) Irene E. Eller^, b. 12 May 1907; m,

James M. Graybeal who died in 191*7*
He was a physician in Marion, Va.
where his wife still lives as a
teacher in the public school.

(3) Joseph Johnson Eller^, b. 10 Feb*

1912; m. Jean Bundy* He lives in
Marion, Virginia where he is a
practicing physician. Issue, one
son, Joseph Johnson Eller Jr.®.

(U) Kirby lake Eller Jr.7, b. 19 Feb.
1916; m. Anna Bagwell. He lives
in Jefferson, N. C. where he is
connected with Public Welfare.
Issue, two sons, (1) Thomas Lake
Eller®, (2) Peter H. Eller8.

Mary Ada Eller , b. 20 Dec. 1881; m., 22
June 1902, William Reese Graybeal, b, 11
Nov, 1881 at Clifton, Ashe Co., N. C. ;
d., 2U Oct. 195k at Grassy Creek, N. C.

Children:

(1) Millard Earl Graybeal^, b. 26 June

1903; m., 17 July 1926, Jimmie
Elizabeth Willis.

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(2) Joseph David Dean Graybeal , b. U

Nov. 1907; m., 1 Nov* 1930, Hazel
Jfyers.

(3) Virginia Belle Graybeal , b. 20 Apr.

1910; m., 23 Dec. 1930, G. Clay
Blevins*

n

(1*) Arthur Wayne Graybeal , b. 30 Sept.

1912; m., 5 May 193k, Mary Livesay.

(5) William Jennings Graybeal^, b. 17

April 1915; m., 19 Sept* 1936,

Eloise Justice.

(6) Lucy May Graybeal^, b. 1 k June 1917;

m., 31 Aug. 19k0, Fred Moore Lawson.

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(7) Janes Vance Or ay teal , b# 7 July

1921; m., lit Oct. 19lt2, Bonnie
Driskill.

(8) Robert Ted G ray be a 1 , b. 8 March

lQ?!i ; m. 13 Feb. I^li6, Maxine

Jenkins •

(ii) Robert Earl Eller^, b. lii April 1886; d.

5 Jan. 1996. He m. , let., 1906, Elisa¬
beth V. Wilcox, b. Nov. 1891; d. 2la Aug.
1919. He m. 2nd., May 19L0, Helen Erb,
b. Sept. 1906. Children of first mar¬
riage with Elisabeth V. Wilcox weret
(1) Robert Miles Eller', b. 2lt Hot. 1906;
b., 13 March 1951. Helen Elisabeth
Lipps, b. 7 Aug. 1920. One child
• Robert Eller , b. U July

J

1952.

(2) Margaret Elisabeth Eller', b. L May

1915; b. Robert Tasevell Bruce who
d. 30 May 1952.

(9) Millard Hansford Eller^, b. 9 April 1893;

b. Dora Levis. They lire at Creston,
H. C. He Is a retired teacher in the

public schools.

Children!

(1) Clara Dora Eller , b. 19 Dec. 1918;
a. Thofwis I. Gray of Arlington,

Va. Three of their children are
(1) Thomas Gray ; (2) Helen Oray^*
(3) Llit*. Or«y

(?) fancy Mll<1r*d Ell.r1, b. L March

1921; a. Oliver W. Movry of Aiken,

S. C. One child is a dau. Soli
. ovry ,

(3) Dana Frances Eller , b. lit Hov. 1922;
a. Edvard Jackson of Charlotte,

N. C. Three of their children are
(1) Fteoecca Jackson^j (2) Robert
Jackson^ and (3) Kenneth Jackson .

(It) Virginia Orace Eller7, b. 9 Oct. 192it ;

m« Royal Carpenter of Dallas,

Texas. One child is Scott Car¬
penter.

(5) Millard Hansford Eller Jr. , b. 6

Oct. 1926. Employed presently,
1956, by the Duke Power Co. at
Leaksville, N. C.

(6) Evelyn Elizabeth Eller^, b, U Oct.

1929. Employed presently, 1956, by
the EHike Power Co., at Charlotte,

N. C.

(7) Joseph Alvin George Eller , b. 19

July 1931* Employed presently,
1956, by The Bell Telephone Co. at
Charlotte, N, C.

(8) Claude Earl Eller7, b. 28 Oct. 1933.

Presently, 1956, in the U. S. Air
Force stationed in Texas.

(9) Robert Lewis Eller^, b. U July 1937.

Employed, presently, 1956, by the
Singer Sewing Machine Co. at Aiken,
S. C.

(10) Mary Eller , b. 18 Oct. 1939* living
. with her parents at Creston, N. C.

Mary Eller (called Polly), b. 23 March 1808; d. 3 Jan.
1908; m. Aaron Latham. They lived at Clifton, N. C.
and had children;

(1) Catherine Latham.

(2) Elizabeth Latham.'’

(3) Sarah Latham.*’

(U) David Latham.^

(5) There may have been other children.

Elizabeth Eller^, m. Larkin Maxwell. Their children
were;

(1) Mitchell Maxwell?

(2) William Maxwell.'’

(3) Richard Maxwell?’

(li) Luke Maxwell^.

(5) Two daughters, names not found.

Peter Eller^. He is said by one source to have mar¬
ried twice and to have had several children. By

(5)

(6)

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another source he is said to have made several trips
back and forth between N. C. and Arkansas and Texas
and never to have married. A Peter Eller, farmer,
aged 50 is shown in the i860 census of Ashe Co.,

N. C. with a wife Sarah of sane age and children as
shown below. He is not listed in either the 1650
or 1870 census.

(1) Susan Eller , aged 1L in the i860 census.

(2) Mary Eller^, aged 12 in the i860 census.

(3) Martha Eller^, aged 16 in the i860 census.

(U) Jacob Eller'', probably a son. A Jacob Eller is
shown in the Ashe Co., N. C. census of i860 as
a farmer, aged 28, with wife Delia, aged ?6
and with children as follows;

(1) Emeline Eller^, aged 10.

(2) William Eller , aged 8.

(3) Prances Eller^, a daughter, aged 5.

(li) Ellen Cathron filler^, aged 3*

(5) Nina F.ller^, a daughter, aged 1.

(5) Luke Eller' , probably a son. A Luke Eller is

shown in the Ashe Co., N. C. census of i860 as
a farmer, aged 26 with wife Catherine, aged
26 and with a son John Eller, aged 2. He was
not found in the 1870 census.

Nancy Eller\ m. Saruel Jones. Their children were t

(1) Alexander Jones'*.

(2) A swell Jones •

(3) Jacob Jones'*.

(U) Lee Jones'*.

(5) Katie Jones''.

(6) Elisabeth Jones'*.

(7) Mary (Polly) Jones'*.

(8) Sarah Jones*.

(9)

(10)

Martha Jones^,

Amanda Jones
(11) Cora Jonesr.

William Eller^, n. Susanna Eller. She was a dau. of
John Eller Jr.^, (John^, Peter^, George Michael*)
and his wife Elisabeth Ray Vannoy^, (Jesse*', Nathan¬
iel , John^, Prancis^, John*). Their children are
shown under Eller Family 71, p 69 herein.

138

(7)

Susannah Eller , m. David Roland and had children;

(1) Calvin Roland,^

(2) Jacob Roland.

(3) Aaron Roland^.

(U) Andrew Roland^,

(5) Mary Roland^.

(6) Catherine Roland .

(7) Margaret Roland^.

Sarah Eller , m, as his first wife David Miller. After
her death he m., March 181*2, as his 2nd. wife, Mary
Eller, dau. of John Eller Jr.^ (John^, Peter^, George
Michael-*-) and his wife Elizabeth Ray Vannoy* A child
of Sarah Eller and David Miller was;

(1) Elizabeth Miller'*, m. Floyd Welch.

John Eller^, b. 1822; m. Catherine Eldreth, b. 1821*.

He and his wife Catherine are shown in the 1850,
i860 and 1870 census’ of Ashe Co,, N. C. at ages of
28, 37 and 1* 9 and 26, 3£ and 1*6 respectively. Their
children as shown in these census lists were as
follows.

(1) William Eller , aged 7 in the 1850, 17 in the

i860 and 25 in the 1870 census’ of Ashe Co.

He was shown to be an incurable invalid in the
two latter census lists.

(2) David Eller-*, aged 5 in the 18 50 and 15 in the

i860 census’ of Ashe Co. He may have been the
David Eller, aged 21 shown in the 1870 census
of Ashe County with wife Jane of same age and
a dau. Joicy, aged 2.

(3) Matthias Eller aged 3 in the 1850, 12 in the
i860 and 21 in the 1870 census of Ashe Co.,

N.C. Ashe County, N. C. death records show
that he died 10 March 1931, aged "about 83 ,M

(1*) Elizabeth Eller'*, aged 1 in the 1850, 8 in the
i860 and may have been the Amanda Eller, aged
18, shown in the 1870 census.

(5) Jacob Eller'*, aged 6 in the i860 census. The
1870 census of Ashe Co. shows Jacob Eller,
age 18 with wife Elizabeth, aged 21, and child¬
ren as follows; (1) Wiley Eller^, aged 1* and
(2) David Eller^, aged 1. Ashe Co., N. C.

139

death records shows Jacob C. Eller, b. 21 Oct.
1850; d. 13 Feb. 1923? buried in the Eller
family cemetery at Clifton, N. C.

(6) Zachariah Eller , aged L in the i860 and 15 in

the 1870 census of Ashe Co.

(7) Nancy EllerC, aged 3 in the i860 and 11 in the

1870 census of Ashe Co.

(8) Calvin Eller'', aged 7 in the 1870 census of Ashe

Co. —

(9) Kary Eller , aged 5 in the 1670 census of Ashe

Co.

(10) David Eller*4, o. 1 tor. 1626; d. 2lj March 1901; 30

Oct. 1852, Katherine Baker, b. 1833) d. 22 Feb. 1903.
They are said to have had 9 children, only six of
whom, as follows, lived to maturity.

(1) Mary Eller^, b. L March 1856; d. 5 July 19L6; n.,

Lli Oct. 1877, Harvey Augustus Ellerc, (Jams'’,
Simeon^1, John3, Peter*, Oeorge Michael ). See
Eller Family *V herein for children.

(2) John Bller^, aged 11 in the 1870 census of Ashe

Co., N. C. He r. Jesse Campbell and removed to
Nebraska. Their children were*

(1) Jesse Eller6.

(2) Donald Eller6.

(3) Bernice Eller6.

(li) Harry Eller®.

(3) Joshua Eller^, aged 9 in the 1670 census of Ashe

Co., N. C. He m. Celia Jones and lived In
Ashe Co., N. C. They had children;

(1) Jennie Eller6.

(2) Ennis Eller**.

(3) Ouy Eller6.

(U) William Eller \ aged 6 in the 1870 census of
Ashe Co., N. C. He m. Mary Miller, dau. of
David and Polly (Mary) Miller. Family lived
in Ssilthville, Tennessee. They had children;

(1) Charles Eller6.

(2) Robert Eller6.

(3) Bffie Eller6.

(li) Maude Eller6.

(5) Mabel Eller6.

(6) Gertrude Eller .

(7) Dolly Eller6.

(?) Jacob Eller^, aged Ij in the 1870 census of Ashe
Co., N. C. He m. Allie F. Goss, dau. of Isham
S. Goss of Ashe Co., N. C. Their children were

(1) Wade E. Eller^, now living at Warrensville,

Ashe Co«, N* C«

(2) Elizabeth (Bessie) Eller^.

(6) Lee (Leander) Eller^, aged 2 in the 1870 census
of Ashe Co., N. C. He m. Matilda Graybeal.

The family lived in Lancaster Co., Pa. Child¬
ren were,

9 £

(1) R. 0. Eller , a Baptist clergyman of

Spencer, N. C.

(2) Oscar Eller^.

(3) William Eller6.

(1*) Lester Eller6.

(?) Blanch Eller6.

(6) Stella Eller6.

(7) Alma Eller6.

MART ELLER

Daughter of Peter Slier, Family II, p. 17.

liil

FAMILT X

1 p 1

KART ELLER , (Peter , George Michael ) was bom In
Rowan Co., N. C. and, according to the "History of Henry Co.,
Indiana, 188L, by the Interstate Publishing Co.," died in
Henry Co., Ind. in 1872, aged 8L, making 1788 her birth year.
The i860 Federal census of Henry County, In liana, where the
family lived after 1819, states her age as 76, making her
birth year 178L which probably is correct. She married
before l^Ob, when her daughter Elizabeth was bom, George
Koons, b., 1785/86, in Randolph Co., N. C. probably, and
died in Henry Co., Ind., 25 March 18L9. (Ibid.) The date
I of his death by family record was 26 March 18L9. The 1810
census of Ashe Co., N. C. shows them both to be aged over
26 and living in that county with four children, two males
and two females, all urvter 13. This would indicate that
both George and Mary (Eller) Koons were bom as early as
178L. The 1850 census of Henry Co., Indiana, however, gives
Mary (Eller) Koons the age of 57 years which doubtless was
an error and should have been 67.

George Koons may have been a son of John Koons who was
settled in Ashe County, N. C. as early as 1790 although most
believe he was a son of Gasper Koons, John's brother of
Randolph Co., N. C. Others might think that he was a son of
George Koons who probably was a brother of John and Gasper
and living in Ashe County, N. C. as early as 1800 and a
prominent citizen there. This George Koons, however, had
no son. The 1800 census of Ashe Co. shows him at age over
Ji5 with wife of same age and one daughter, aged between 16
and 26. John Koons on the other hand is known to have had
a son George, (Book C, p. h 78, Ashe Co. Deeds), but this son
probably was the George Koonce fete) whose will was proved
in Ashe Co., 11 Nov. 18*?5 naming children John, Jacob,
George, Sally, Polly, Catherine, Hilly and "the heirs of
Elisabeth Koonce." (Will Book , pp. 20, 21, Ashe Co.)

John Koons lived near the farm of Mary Eller's father, both
on Reedy Creek In Rowan Co., now Davidson Co., where his
name was spelled John Coo nee and on Rones Creek in Wilkes
Co., now Ashe Co., where his name was spelled John Koons.

John Koons and Peter Eller witnessed deeds for each other
in Ashe Co. and John Koons was one of the sureties for Peter
Eller1 s widow and his son John when they took administration
of Peter Eller*s estate in 1799*

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As for George Koons, who married Mary Eller , being a
son of Gasper, the evidence is very strong. They named no
son John, unless one was so named and died young, but they
did name a son Gasper. They also named one of their daugh¬
ters Massie which was the given name of the first wife of
Gasper Koons who would have been George* s mother if Gasper
was his father. Moreover, George and Mary (Eller) Koons re¬
moved to Henry Co., Indiana where Gasper and his second
wife and children settled in 1808/09* These facts, coupled
with the Back Creek Friends Meeting Records in Randolph Co.,
North Carolina which show that Gasper and Massie Koons had
a son George, is pretty convincing. This son, George, of
Gasper, on 27 June 1801, was disowned by the Back Creek
Friends Meeting for "marrying out of unity." The date of
this disownment showing that George Koons was already or
about to be, married on 27 June 18 01 means, if the ages of
George and Mary (Eller) Koons shown above are correct that
they married at extremely tender ages. As stated above,
however, the 1810 census of Ashe County, N. C. shows both
George and his wife at ages over 26 and with four children,
two boys and two girls, all under 10. Later records show
only three children, two girls and one boy, who were born
before 1810 and one may surmise that the missing boy was
bom, probably, in 1802 indicating that his parents were
married in 1801 at ages, if we accept the above census re¬
cords, of about 17 years each. Their first child, Eliza¬
beth, was b. in 1803/U according to the i860 census of
Henry Co., Ind. which gave her age as 56.

George and Mary (Eller) Koons seem not to have been
Quakers as Gasper was, but that fact only bears out the
disownment of 27 June 1801 of George Koons, son of Gasper,
for marrying out of unity, i.e. for marrying someone other
than a Quaker. Mary Eller was a IXinker or Baptist.

John, Gasper and George Koons were sons of Devault
Koons who, according to the Henry County Histories above
mentioned, settled first in Pennsylvania, Devault Koons

Ili3

may have been the Dewald Kuntz who came to Pennsylvania
from Germany on the ship "Phoenix" and took his oath of
allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania 28
August 1750. (Penn. Archives, 2nd. Series, Vol. 17.) This
Dewald Kuntz probably was the Deval Conce who, with his
wife Margaret, sold to Jacob Galliaan, 21 Feb. 1755, 70 acres
of land on Orooses Branch in Frederick Co., Md. , and the
Dev»i It Coo nee who, with his wife Margaret, sold to Edward
Matthias, 2 Feb. 1756, 100 acres of land on Abraham Creek
in Frederick Co., Maryland. (Book E, pp. 916 and 990,
Frederick Co., Md. Deeds.) Again, he doubtless was the
Devalt Coons who, with his wife Margaret, sold to William
Flick, 22 Aug. 1770, a lot in Sharpsburg in Frederick Co.,
Md. (Book N, p. 305, Frederick Co# DeedsJ He probably was
the father also of the Devalt Koontz whose will, mentioning
his wife Rosena but in no way indicating any children, was
dated 8 Jan. 1786 and proved 10 Jan. 179li in Frederick Co.
(Liber 0M, Mo. 2, pp. 502/03, Frederick Co., Md. Wills.)

As shown above, Gasper Koons was a Quaker. He first
appears in the North Carolina records on the 1779 tax list
of Randolph County and land on Little River was ordered
surveyed to him 23 December 178li. Other land on Little
River and Richmond Creek in Randolph Co. was later granted
to him. Whether he was a ^iaker upon arrival in Randolph
Co. is not known. He first appeared on the Back Creek
Friends Meeting records in Randolph Co. on the 27 April
1793 when he, with his wife Kassa and children, George,
Davoull, John, Jasper (Gasper) , Martha and Mary were re¬
ceived in the Meetlr^ by request. His first wife, said to
have been bom Massa (Hassle) Presnell, died about 1796.

He then married Abagall Plggoth (Plggott) 3 Nov. 1797.

(Back Creek Friends Meeting Records.) On 25 June 1808 the
family requested a certificate to move from the Back Creek
Friends Meeting in N. C. to the South West Branch Meeting
in Miami Co., Ohio, located two miles south west of West
Milton, which request was later granted (Ibid). On 19 Aug.
1809 Jasper (Gasper) and Abagall Koons with sons John,

Jasper (Gasper), Jeremiah, William, Nathan, Henry and Sam¬
uel and daughter Hanna were received by the South West
Branch on certificate from Back Creek Monthly Meeting in
North Carolina dated 30 July 1008. It will be noted that

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the son George was not included and if he were the George
who married Mary Eller he would not have been because he
remained in Ashe Co., N. C. until 1819 before joining the
others in Indiana. The son Davault apparently settled
farther inland in Indiana probably in Monroe County where a
Devalt Koons entered land in township 11 of Morgan County
in 1820. (Hist, of Morgan, Monroe and Brown Counties, Ind.
by Charles Blanchard 1881*.)

As for which of John or Gasper was the father of George
Koons who married Mary Eller this writer is certain in his
own mind that it was Gasper and that his grandparents were
Davault and Massie Koons of Randolph County, N. C. and Henry
County, Indiana.

George^ and Mary (Eller) Koons, according to Hist, of
Henry Co., Indiana, by Interstate Pub. Co., p. 550, emi¬
grated to Wayne Co., Ind. in September 1819. The Ashe Co.,
N. C. records show that he sold 90 acres of land to Henry
Eller, 9 Dec. 1819 (Deed Book C, p. 68). Two years later,
in 1821, he and John Koons^, his brother, doubtless, took
up land in Liberty Township of Henry Co., Ind. and a year
later both entered land in Blue River Township of the same
county. Hazzard's History of Henry Co., Ind, says, however,
that George Koons^ lived on his land in Liberty Township
for 16 years then sold it and removed to an 80 acre farm in
Blue River Township where he built a log house that was his
home until his death on 25 March 181*9. (The correct date
is 26 March 181*9.) It also stated that he was a Republican
in politics and that both he and his wife belonged to the
Baptist Church.

His will was written 15 March 181*7 and filed, proved
and recorded in Henry Co., Indiana 12 May 181*9* It reads
as follows. (Will Book C, page 66, Henry Co., Ind.)

’’State of Indiana
County of Henry: SS

"I, George Koons, senior, of Henry County in the State
of Indiana, do make and publish this pgr last will and
testament, hereby revoking and making void all former
Wills by me at any time heretofore made.

1st. I direct that ny body be decently interred and

that my funeral be conducted in a wanner corresponding
with y estate and situation in life, and as to such
worldly estate as it has pleased God to entrust we with
I dispose of the sane in the following wanner, to-wit :

I direct first that all y Just debts and funeral
expenses be paid as soon after ay decease as possible
out of the first moneys that shall car.o to the hands
of y Executor from ary portion of y estate personal.
2nd* That y wife Mary hare her support and malntaln-
ance In a decent and comfortable manner out of y
Estate, and at her decease (if she should su rrlTe me)
be decently interred and all her funeral expenses paid
out of y estate*

3rd. I will and direct that each of y children both
sons and daughters, except y youngest son, Peter,
hare each on* dollar out of y estate after the deceaee
of yeelf and wife*

lith. I Will and bequeath unto William Heresy the
whole of y personal estate In to to after the payment
of the foregoing sums*

5th. That William Heresy keep and take care of the
said George Koons, senior and Mary his wife aforesaid,
and that he hare full authority oeer all y personal
property from this time henceforth. In Teatimory
Whereof I, George Koons senior hare hereunto set y
hand and seal this 15th day of March in the year of
our Lord, Ona thousand eight hundred and forty seven*
And I hereby make and ordain my son Ha vault Koons
Executor of this y last will and testament. George
Koons, senior (seal)

Attests Calvin fassell
Henry Jones

"State of Indiana
Henry County » S3

■Personally appeared before me Samuel Hoover, Clerk
of the Henry County Probate Court, Henry Jones, ona of
the mibscrlblng witnesses to the foregoing last will
and testament of George Koons so deceased, who being
duly sworn on his oath says that he and one Calvin

Russell, now deceased, subscribed their names thereto
as witnesses in the presence of said Testator, at his
request, and in the presence of each other, that said
will was duly executed at said County, that said Tes¬
tator at the time of executing said will was of full
age to devise his property and of sound and disposing
mind and memory and not under coercion or restraint.

Sworn to and subscribed Henry Jones

May 12th, 181*9. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said Probate Court. Samuel
Hoover, Clk.

Filed, proved, and Recorded,

May 12, A. D. 181*9

Witness Samuel Hoover, C H Pr Co

One of the settlement papers of the estate of George
Koons of Henry Co. shows payments of 1.00 each to (1) Main
Koons who probably was Massie; (2) Catherine Koons, wife
doubtless of William Harvey; (3) George Koons; (1*) Henry
Koons; (5) J. R. Millikan husband, doubtless, of Martha
Koons; (6) D. Koons; (7) Parnell Bales and wife, the wife
doubtless being Elizabeth Koons, and (8) Jacob Harvey, hus¬
band, doubtless, of Alice (Allie) Koons. The sons Absolom,
Peter and Gasper were not mentioned, Absolom being deceased,
Peter having been denied the 1.00 payment by his father’s
will and Gasper probably being omitted in the record in
error. That there was a son Gasper is proved by the settle¬
ment papers in his own estate in 1865 when his brother
Henry petitioned the court to be appointed executor and
presented Peter and George L. Koons as security. The peti¬
tion stated that Gasper Koons (son of George and Mary) died
intestate on or about 7 March 1865. (Common Pleas Court
Complete Record #13, p. 520, Henry Co., Ind.) Also see "The
History of Henry Co., Ind., published in 1881* by the Inter¬
state Publishing Co. of Chicago, p. 550.

The children of George and Mary (Eller) Koons were,
order of birth not certain;

(1) Elizabeth Koons\ b. 1803/1*; m. U* July 1822 in Wayne Co.,

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Ind., Parnell Bales (Wayne Co., Ind* Marriages). She
prooat) ly was the Elisabeth bales, age 56 who is shown
in the i860 census of Henry Co., Indiana, taken 28
July i860, as haring been bom in N* C. and liring
with Joseph Bales* This would Bean that she was bom
in North Carolina in 1803/QL and that her parents
were serried as early as 1802/03* The Federal Census
of 1830 lists the family c£ Parnell bales at age
between 20 and 30 with wife of sum age and with
three male children all under 10* The 18L0 census
shows Parnell Bales and wife with ages advanced ten
years with three aaa le and four female children all
under 15* Two of the females were aged between 10
and 15 and since they were not listed in the 18)0
census very likely were children of other parents.

Four of these children probably were t

(1) Oeorge Bales'’. He m. Irene KllUkan and lived

in Henry Co., Ind. One son was {

(1) Leander Bales \ b. 2 it Oct. 1056; d. 9 Aug*
191ii. He m. Flora Graves, b* 1 Sept*

1861 in Henry Co., Indiana. She was a
dmi * of Hiram and Samantha (Karlin)
Graves* Their children were, (1) Lawson
Graves bales', b. about 1880 In Henry
Co*; m* Edith durson; (2) Ivan Bales', b*
17 Karch 1890; d* L April 1927 at Dayton,
Liberty Co*, Texas; ■*, 2L Dec* 1906,
Frances Delania Taylor, b* 23 June 1890;
d* 8 Oct. 1930 at Houston, Texas and had
children, Ivan Balee®, b* 27 Jan* 1910
and Francis Adalbert Bales*, b. 9 Nov.
1913* (3) Laura Bales^, a. Charles

Tucksr*

(2) Joseph Bales'', married and, according to the

i860 census of Blue River Twsp* in Henry Co*,
Ind* which wae taken 26 July i860, was bom In
1829/30 and had children, according to the
i860 censue, as follows;

(1) Sarah Bales^, aged 6*

(2) Martha Bales , aged 7.

(3) Mary Bales^, aged 1*.

(h) Parnell Bales^, aged 1.

(5) Living in the family in i860 was Elizabeth
Bales, age 56 who doubtless was the
mother of Joseph Bales,

(3) Solomon Bales^, b, 15 June I83I* in Henry Co.,

Ind. and d. 10 April 1925; m. 1st., 28 May
1857, Elizabeth Cory, b, about I83U and d, 13
Oct. 1862. She was a dau, of Noah and Iucretia
Cory. Solomon Bales m. 2nd., 2l* Dec. 1863,
Lucinda Pidgeon, b. 2h May 1837, dau, of David
and Rachel (Wilson) Pidgeon, (Henry Co., Ind.
Marriages; also see Bales Family Record by
Jewel S. Bales in the Archives of the Gen. Soc.
of Utah. )

Children by first marriage with Elizabeth Cory:

(1) Ada Josephine Bales^ who m., 16 Oct. 1880
Joseph Drake (Henry Co, Ind, Marriages).

Children by second marriage with Lucinda
Pidgeon:

(2) William Henry Bales , b. 9 Aug. 1865*

(3) Rachel Elizabeth Bales^, b. 13 Aug. 1867*

(1*) Albert Lind ley Bales^, b. 16 Aug. 1869 in

Henry Co., Ind. He m. , 28 Nov. 1891*,

Emma Thasnburgh.

(5) Della Florence Bales^, b. 18 Jan. 1879*

(1*) Parnell Bales ^ He probably was the Parnell

Bales, aged 20, who was living as a farm laborer
in the family of Augustus and Anna Batchfield
in Henry Co. in i860. (Federal Census Henry
Co., Ind. i860, taken 12 July i860.) Augustus
Batchfield married Anna Miller, daughter of
Polly (Welker) Miller and granddaughter of
Adam Welker who was living in Ashe Co., N, C.

in 1810.

Massie Koons^, birth and death dates not found but
born, probably, about 18 06 and d, about 181*0, She
married, as his first wife, John Smith, born 13 Feb.

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1799 and died In 1870 at the age of 72 years. He
lies buried in the cemetery of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grove Township of
Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. He married, as his second
wife, in Adams Co., Ill., Miss Sarah Winegar who d.
in lp8?.

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Children of Massie Koons and John S*-ith were, order
of birth in all cases not certain.

(1^ Mary Smith'’, b. 16 Sept. 1823; d. 16 Keb. i860;
m., as his first wife, George W. Graybill, b.

26 June 1821 in Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 5 March
1900. He married as his 2nd. wife in 1863, His
first wife*s sister, Mrs. Hannah Sexton, widow
of James Sexton. See Hist, of Pottawattamie
Co., Iowa by Homer A. Field and Joseph R. Reed,
published 1907 by S. J. Clark Pub. Co. For
children see unMr Eller Family VII herein*

(2) Patience Smith‘s, b. 25/26 Nov. 1825; d. lii Aug.
1895 (gravestone); m. Levi Graybill, b. 12
March 1018 in Bloomfield Twap. of Jackson Co.,
Ohio; d. 30 Nov. 1912. He was a son of Michael
and Polly (Stoker) Graybill. Polly Stoker was
a dau. of Michael and Catherine (Eller) Stoker.
(Family records suoplled by Herbert Oraybill of
Council Bluffs, Iowa.) Their children, accord¬
ing to family, church, cemetery and federal
census records of Orove Twsp. of Pottawattamie
Co., I<**a, taken lli July 1%0, were:

(1) Abagail Graybill^, aged 18 in the i860

census, b. in Ill. Gravestone in ceme¬
tery at afheeler Grove, Pottawattamie Co.,
Iowa says b. 15 April 10L2; d. 8 April
18^.

(2) Salathlel Graybill^, aged 13 in the i860

census, b. in Iowa.

(3) Patience Graybill0, aged 11 in the i860

census, b. in Tows.

(L) Levi Graybill^, aged 8 in the i860 census,
b. in Iowa. Gravestone in Council Bluffs
Cem. says b. 16 Aug. 1851; d. 1 May 1079*

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(3)

( 6) John Graybill , aged 6 in i860 census#

(6) Joseph B# Graybill^, aged 3 in i860 census,

b. in Iowa. Gravestone in Wheeler Grove
Cem# says b. ll* Aug. 1867; d. 13 Oct. 1880.

(7) George W. (A) Graybill^, aged 6 months in

i860 census, b. in Iowa. Gravestone says
b. 23 Dec. 1869; d. 9 Nov. 1880.

(8) Martha Graybill0. Gravestone says b. 26

Oct. 1861* ; d. 1 Nov. 1881.

Hannah Smith^, b. 16 Sept. 1827 in Indiana; d#

16 Feb. i860; m., 1st. Mr. Oman or Omen; m.

2nd#, James Sexton, aged 1*2 in i860, b, in Ky.;
m. 3rd. her brother-in-law George Washington
Graybill.

Children by first marriage:

(1) Nettie Oman^ (or Omen); m. George Tucker#

(2) Betty Oman0 (or Omen); m. 0. Stoker#
Children by 2nd. marriage:

(3) Elizabeth Sexton^*, aged 13 in i860, child

prob. of first marriage.

(1*) Eliza Sexton^, aged 11 in the i860 census.
Same prob. as Jeanette shown in family
records,

(6) M, (probably Araminta) Sexton^, aged 6 in
i860. She Drob. married John Downs#

(6) Emily Sexton^, aged 1* in i860.

(7) John (Jack) Sexton^, aged 2 in i860.

(8) George Sexton^*, aged 2 mo. in i860.

(9) James Sexton^.

Children by 3rd. marriage see pp. 98 and 99.
(1*) Elizabeth Smith'’, b. in Indiana, about 1829; m#
John Winegar, b# in Pennsylvania, about 1821.
One family record says he was b# 2 March 1821
and d# 30 June 1888, Another record says he
was born 2 March 1823, an error, doubtless,
because the i860 census taken 13 July of that
year gives his age as 1*0. This census shows
the family to have been living in Macedonia
Township of Pottawattamie Co#, Iowa, the
father at age 1*0, bom in Pennsylvania and the

■other aged 29, bom in Indiana. Their child¬
ren, all bom in Iowa, were shown as follows.

(1) Henry Winegar^, aged 2 in 1850, b. in Iowa

and aged 12 in i860, b. in Ho. Doubt*
less was bom in Iowa.

(2) Susan A. Winegar^, aged 1 in 1850 and

called Susan and aged 10 in i860 census
and called Susan A.

(3) Samel Winegar^, age 9 in i860 census*

(M John Vinegar^, aged 8 in i860 census*

(5) Massey Wlnegar^, female, aged 7 in i860

census* ^

(6) Jane Wlnegar , aged 6 in i860 census*

(7) A sale child* , name illegible, aged 5 in

i860 census.

(8) George H. Wlnegar^, aged 2 in i860 census.

(9) Joseph Hyrum Wlnegar^, b. 27 June 186L;

d. 10 Feb. 1330; ■* Nettie Kay Moo^y.
(Family Records)

(5) Lydia Smith , aged 16 in 1850 census of Pottawat*

taaie Co., Iowa.

(6) Stephen Smith , aged 1L in the 1850 census. Ac¬

cording to the History of Pottawattamie Co.,
Iowa by Homer A. Field and Joseph R. Reed, pub¬
lished in 1^07 by the S. J. Clark f\ib. Co.,
Stephen Smith was born in Henry Co., Ind., 28
Jan. 1836. He came to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa
with his parents about 1st. of Nor. I8ii7* He
married in Mills Co., Iowa, Miss Mary C. Frain
b. 31 Hay 1837 whose parents settled in lows
about 1832. Stephen Smith lived in Macedonia
Township of Pottawat Wile Co. where he served
as township trustee for 17 years. He was
reared in the faith of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and held in high
esteem by all who knew him.

Childrens ^

(1) Henry A. Sidth of Macedonia Township,
Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.

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(2) George M. Smith of Fremont Co., Iowa.

(3) Clara V. Smith , m. Mr. Bogue of Eagle Co.,

Colo. ^

(h) Willard E. Smith , a farmer of Macedonia
Twsp, ^

(5) Arthur J. Snith of Macedonia Twsp.

(7) Joseph Smith'’, aged 12 in the 1850 census.

Children of John Smith and his 2nd. wife, Sarah
Winegar.

(8) Rhoda Ann Smith , aged 9 in the 1850 census,

bom in Illinois.

(9) Hyrum Smith'’, aged 6 in the 1850 census, bom in

Illinois. c

(10) Samuel Carlos Smith , aged h in the 1850 census,

bom in Iowa.

(11) Abraham Smith'’, aged 1 in the 1850 census, bom

in Iowa.

(12) A son Smith , died in infancy. Ibid.

(13) A son Smith'’, died in infancy. Ibid.

(3) Henry Koons^, b. 1807/08 in N. C.; d. after June 1866;
m., 2li Dec. 1829, Elizabeth Harvey, b. 1812/13* The
Federal Census of Heniy Co., Ind. Prairie Twsp.,
shows children as given below and living with the
family, one Ellen McCollam, aged 67 who was born in
N. C. The i860 census shows Nellie McCollam, aged
78, doubtless the same, living with James Harvey.

She probably was the mother of Elizabeth Harvey having
married a McCollam after her first husband* s death.
Children of Henry and Elizabeth (Harvey) Koons were,

(1) George Koons'’, aged 17 in the i860 census taken

Sept. i860. He probably married Elizabeth and
had a son Robert Koons^, b. in i860 and per¬
haps other children. (1850 Census of Henry Co.,
Ind.) ^

(2) Pleasant Koons , a son, aged 11 in the i860

census of Henry Co., Ind.

(3) There probably were other children who died

young.

Absolom Koons , d. before 2li Oct. 1836 when admin. of
his estate was given to John Sailth and Henry Koons.
(Probate Records, Henry Co., Ind.) He m., lie.

Issued 19 March 1828, Nancy ftissell who married, LLi
Jan. I838, as her second husoand, Janes Duke.

Richard Haynes, on 15 Feb. 1837, was appointed
guardian of Mary Ann Koons and Janes Koons, minor
heirs of Aosolon Koons, deceased, and on 15 May I638
filed an estate settlement with Jones Duke and his
wife Nancy called the widow of the said Abeolcn
Koons. The settlement provided that the said Janes
and Nancy should keep and maintain the said minor
children until they reached the ages of 13 years,
free of charge except that said guardian would pay
school fees. (Order Book B of Book AB and Complete
Probate Record B, Henry Co., Ind.)

The children of Abaolom and Nancy (tassel) Koons were

(1) Mary Ann Koons , b. 3 July 1829; d. 3 Feb. 1$10;

a., 7 March l8Uj, John Bouslog, d. 1 Oct. 1891
at New Castle, Ind. The i860 census of Henry
Co., Ind., taken on 30 July i860, shows their
children as follows, name spelled Bouslog.

(1) Daniel Bouslog, aged 12.

(2) William Bouslog, aged 9.

(3) James Bouslog, aged 6.

(It ) Living with the family was Matilda Bouslog
aged 60, bom in Virginia. She doubtless
was the mother of John Bouslog.

(5) Other children may have been bom after
I860.

(2) James Koons C. James Koons, aged 16 was Heir*;

with John T. haw ley in 1850 and owned property
valued at $700.00.

Alice (Allie) Koons\ b. in N. C., about 1813; date of
death not found. She m., L Sept. 1828, Jacob Harvey,
b. 1810/11; date of death not found. The sketch of
their son Mahlon D. Harvey in the History of Henry
County by Haitard states that Allie end Jacob Harvey
had a family of lb children. The census of Henry Co.

for 1850 and i860, the latter taken Sept* i860, lists
eleven of these children as follows:

(1) Henry Harvey , aged 19 in the 1850 census*

(2) Jane Harvey^, aged 15 in the 1850 census*

(3) Mahlon (Mahlon D.) Harvey^, b* 19 Dec. 1836* He

m. , 29 Dec. 1859, Amelia J. Williams (Henry Co.
Marriages). Their children were, (1) Theodosia
Harvey*; (2) Vickie Harvey (3) Edward L*
Harvey^*.

(1*) Miles Harvey , b. 181*0/1*1, aged 9 in the 1850
and 19 in the i860 census*

(5) Milton Harvey^, aged 5 in the 1850 and 17 in the

i860 census#

(6) Joel Harvey aged 3 in the 1850 and 15 in the

i860 census.

(7) Hulda Harvey^, aged 6 mo# in the 18 50 and 13 in

the i860 census*

(8) David Harvey^, aged 11 in the i860 census*

(9) Eliza Harvey^, aged 9 in the i860 census*

(10) Martha Harvey^, aged 6 in the i860 census#

(11) Hazzard’s Hist, of Henry Co., Ind. says there

were 1* other children*

(6) Davault Koons\ b. 12 Oct. 18U*, in Randolph Co., N.C.;
d., probably, after 1883; m. , 30 Oct. 181*5, Polly
Canaday, b. 1822 and d. 26 Apr. 1883. She was a
dau. of William and Hannah (Milliken) Canady. Ac¬
cording to the Hist, of Henry Co., Ind. by Inter¬
state Pub. Co., p. 550, Devault and Polly Koons
lived on his father’s farm for two years after their
marriage, then on an adjoining farm until 1850, then
on the farm of 151 acres of well improved land where
he lived for 26 years. He served one term as town¬
ship trustee, and belonged to the Baptist Church.

His wife belonged to the Christian Church. He is
recorded as having been a very athletic young man,
once having negotiated a standing Jump over a stick
held by two men as high as his head*

Their children were the following:

(1) William Morrison Koons^, aged 13 in the i860

1<5

census of Henry Co. taken July 31; m., 12 Oct.
1867, Hester Evans.

(2) John M. Koons^, aged h in 1850 census; probably

died young.

(3) George Anderson Koons , b. 2 Apr. 18^9; d. 19

June 1918, aged 69 years, 2 mos. 17 days; m.

20 Sept. 1878, Martha M. Duke. No children
survived him.

(Ji) John R. Koons'', aged 8 in the i860 census of
Henry Co.

(9) Eliza E. Koons , aged 6 in the i860 census, m, 1
Jan. 1878, John W. Bales.

(6) Isaac N. Koons m. 15 Feb. 1883, Phebe Millikan.
Not shown in census lists.

(8) Samuel Koons , deceased. Not shown in census

7 Nov. 1890 at New Castle, Ind. , aged 79. The
Federal Census lists of 1850 and i860 give their
cMldren as shown below and in 1850 show one Mary
Koonts (sic) aged 57, born in N. C. living with them.
Very likely Mary Koontz was the mother of Catherine
(Koons) Harvey, her age being misstated as 57 when
it should have been 67. Mary Koons (sic) bom in
N. C., aged 76, was living with Martha (Koons)

Mi Ilk an in the i860 census.

The children of Catherine Koons and her husband
William Harvey were:

(1) Mary E. Harvey^, aged 15 in the 1850 census.

(2) Harrison H, Harvey ", aged lii in the 1850 census.

He m. 27 Dec. 1859 Melinda Conway. (Henry Co.,
Ind. Marriages)

(3) Pleasant Harvey , aged 11 in the 1850 census; d.

22 Apr. 1892 at New Castle, Ind., aged 52. He
m. 1st., 15 Apr. 1858, Nancy 0. Pearce and m.
2nd., 27 Sept. 1865, Sarah A. Hof faker (Hoff-

acre). ^

(h) John Harvey , aged 9 in the 18 50 and 19 in the
i860 census, the latter census taken 16 June
1860.

(5) Randolph Harvey , aged 3 in the 1850 and 12 in
the i860 census, the latter census taken 16
June i860.

Gasper Koons\ b. about 1819/20; d. 7 March 1865* He
m. , 1st., 15 July 1838, Iucinda Hedrick; m. 2nd., 12
Apr. 181*9, Marie Houck, dan. of George Houck of Md.
Mariah (Marie) Koons, the second wife of Casper (sic)
died, according to her death certificate, 17 Aug.

1913, aged 95. Her age in the 1850 census was given
as 21 probably meaning 31* His age in the same
census was 29» Admin, of his estate was given to
Heniy Koons 22 March 1865* (Appearance Docket 166,
Henry Co., Ind. )

Children by 1st. marriage, 1850 census:

(1) Catherine Koons^, aged 11 in the 1850 census of

Henry Co., Ind. She was b. 12 Oct. 1839; d.

22 Sept. 1866 and m., 1 Apr. i860, Adam Miller,
son of Abraham and Polly (Welker) Miller.

(Henry Co., Ind. Marriages and family records
supplied by Mrs. Dallas Harry, a granddaughter.)

(2) Samuel Koons aged 8 in the 18 50 and 17 in the

i860 census.

(3) George Koons aged 5 in the 18 50 and 15 in the

i860 census.

Children by 2nd. marriage:

( h ) Mary E. Koons^, aged 6 months in the 1850 and
10 in the i860 census.

(5) John Koons , aged 8 years in i860 census.

Martha Koons^, b. in Indiana, 19 Jan. 1821; d. 25 June
1900, aged 79 years, 5 mo. and 6 days. She m., 5
Aug. 1838, John Russel Millikan, b. 27 April l8li* in
Jefferson Co., Term. , d. 12 Sept. 1895. He removed
to Henry Co., Ind. in 1835 at age 21 where he became

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prominent, serving as Justice of the Peace 8 years,
member of the State Legislature and as one of the
organizers of the Citizens National Bank of New
Castle, Indiana. Living with the family of John
Russel Millikan in i860 was Mary Koons, b. in N. C.,
aged 76, the mother, doubtless, of his wife.

Children of Martha Koons^ and her husband John
ffeissel Millikan were:

(1) James W, Millikan , aged 10 in the 1850 and 20
in the i860 census,

(?) Sarah Jane Millikan^, aged 8 in the 1850 and 19
in the i860 census. She married, 20 Nov, 1862,
Thomas Benton Hunt, (Henry Co,, Ind, Mar,)

(3) Devmilt K, Millikan**, b, 7 May 181iL, His age was
given as 6 in the 1850 and 15 in the i860
census. He 16 Sept, 167L, Gertrude Boyd,
(Henry Co., Ind, Mar,)

(ii) Mary Elizabeth MillikanC, aged 12 (elc) In the
i860 census. She m., ?6 May 1869, Hamilton
Beck,

(5) Francis (Frank) M, Millikan*’, aged 8 in the i860

census. He was b, 2 Dec, 1851; date of death
not found. He m., 1st,, 16 Sept, l87li, Esma
F. Boyd of Henry Co, who d, 22 Aug, 1888, He
m. 2nd,, 25 Feb, 1897, Mrs, Lima (Elliott)
Barbour, dau. of Evan Elliott of Shelbyvllle,
Ind, Francis (Frank) Millikan^ removed to
Indianapolis in 1889 where he later was presi¬
dent of the Columbia National Bank, Children
by first marriage was one son Harry Boyd
Millikan^’ who m, Ruth Johnson of Bloomington,
Indiana,

(6) Thomas Benton Millikan , b. 28 March l853i. His

age was given as 6 in the i860 census. He a.,
26 Oct, 1877, Alice Peed,

(7) Isaac N, Millikan^, b, 31 Dec. 1855* He is not

shown in the 1860 census. He m., 15 Dec, 1881,
Narrie (Narcissus) Boyd, (Hist, of Henry Co.,
Ind. by George Hazzard,)

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(10) George Koons, Jr,\ b. 29 Aug. 1822; d. 28 July 1906.

He m., 21 Sept* 181*3, Hannah Millikan, b. 1818/19,
native of Tennessee, She predeceased her husband.

His will mentioning all living children was written
in Henry Co, 28 Feb, 1905 and probated there 21 Aug,
1906, It mentioned no wife and stated that he was
then living with his daughter Martha Hewit, Ex¬
ecutors were George E, Koons and George Hewit, (Will
Book H, p, 51*8, Henry Co,, Ind,)

The children of George Koons Jr,^ and his wife Hannah
Millikan were:

(1) Nancy Catherine Koons", aged 6 in the 1850 and

15 in the i860 census. She m. , 23 Jan. 1862,
Edmund Ice,

(2) Mary E. (or J,) Koons , aged 1* in the 1850 and

ll* in the i860 census. She m. 26 March 1871
William R, Frazier, son probably of James H,
and Nancy (Harvey) Crazier,

(3) Adeline Koons^, deceased. Not named in the 1850

or i860 census lists, (See Hist, of Henry Co,,
Ind. by Interstate Pub. Co, 1881*, page 768,)

(1*) Martha J. Koons aged 6 months in 1850 census.
Said to have died young, (Ibid, p. 768)

(5) George A. Koons aged 9 in the i860 census,

(6) Hester A, Koons^, aged 5 in the i860 census. She

died before 1881*, (Ibid. p. 768) She m., 15
Sept. 1876, William A. Kirkham. One dau, was
Aurie V, Kirkham, who m, Mr. Kinsey,

(7) Martha E, Koons aged 3 in the i860 census. She

m., 5 June 1879, George W. Hewit. (Ibid, p,

768)

(8) Keziah (Kezia) A. Koons , aged 1 year in i860

census. She m., 29 Dec. 1881 Ralph R. Leath
(Ibid. p. 768).

(11) Peter Koons , b. 1* June 1826 in Liberty Twsp,, Henry

Co., Ind.; d, 5 Oct. 1908, aged 82 yrs., 5 mos, and
9 days; m. 27 May 181*7, Catherine Rinard, b, 10 Oct.
1828; d. ll* Jan. 1902, aged 73 yrs., 3 mo, and 1* days.
She was a dau. of George Rinard, b. in N. C. and his
wife Catherine Reedy, b, in Kentucky*

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They had children as follows (Blog. Memoirs of Henry
Co,, Ind, , also Henry Co,, Marriages) i

(1) George H. Koons b. 2 Apr, 18^8; m. 6 Sept,

1871, Josie Hicksian, They had children, (1)
Maud Koons^; (2) Clara C, Koons^; (3) Rebecca
E, Koons^; (li) George H, Koons Jr,^*.

(2) John N, Koons'’, b, 9 Feb, 1850; ®, li June 1875,

Carolyn Caylor, They had children, (1) Rollie
C, Koons^; (2) Infant Koons^, d, immediately ;

(3) Doshie Koons^; (!j) Hal lie Koons% (5)
George Koons^,

(3) Mary A, Koons'', b. 10 Mot. 1853; d. 6 July 1866.
(li) Margaret E. Koons^, b, 2 April 16*$; m. 25 Dec,

1879, John A. Heal ton. Their children were,
(1) Alonzo V. Healton®; (2) Minnie C. Healton^
(3) Edna E. Healton^; (li) Mary Ann Healton*^;

(5) Josie Healton^*; (6) Jessie C, Healton^.

(5) Abraham L, Koons'', b, 1 Dec. i860; d, V* Aug,

;

1863.

(6) William P, Koons , b. 10 Dec, 1862; m., 28 June

1892, Jennie Downs, Children, one dau, (1)

c.

Rhea C, Koons •

(7) Thomas B, Koons'’, b. 2 Feb, 1867; ®. Mauie Dolman.

Their children, (1) Ben D. Koons^; (2) Mary
c

Kooos .

THE KOOKS FAMILY OF RANDOLPH AND ASHE COUNTIES, N. C.

The Koons Family of Randolph and Ashe Counties, North
Carolina probably descended from Devald Kuntz1 who came to
Pennsylvania on the ship "Phoenix" and took the Oath of
Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania 28 Aug,
1750. (Penn, Archives, 2nd, Series, Vol. 17.) According
to an account of the family in the "History of Henry County.
Indiana, page 1163, by George Hazzard, 1906", Devault Koons \
a native of Pennsylvania, married the widow Susan Dick, a
native of Germany, whose husband died at sea while crossing
to America, The account continues by naming three of their
sons and the children of their son Oasper as shown oelow.

The above accent on the origin of the family is
rendered doubtful, in one or two respects, by certain re-

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cords found in the courthouse at Frederick, (Frederick
County) Maryland. There we find a deed dated 21 Nov, 1755
in which Devall Conce (sic) and his wife Margaret sold 70
acres of land on Grooses branch in Frederick Co, to Jacob
Gallman. (Book E, p, 916) Another deed dated 2 Feb, 1756
(Book E, p. 990) shows Devault Coonce (sic) and Richard Kee
leasing from Edward Matthias 100 acres of land on Abraham
Creek at the foot of Kittocton Mountain called " Davis
Delight", Still another deed dated 22 Aug, 1770 (Book N,
p, 305) shows Devalt Coons (sic) and Margaret his wife sell¬
ing a lot in Sharpsburg to William Flick. The variation in
the spelling of the name was due perhaps to the fact that
the signatures were by marks making it necessary for the
scriveners to write the name according to the way it sounded
when spoken.

It could be said, of course, that the Dewald (De vault,
Devall, Devalt) Kuntz (Koons, Conce, Coonce, Coons, Koontz)
of Frederick Co,, Md, was not the same as De vault (Davault)
Koons of HazzardTs History of Henry County, Indiana, but
when one notes that the Eller, Dick and Stoker families also
lived in Frederick County, Md, contemporaneously with the
Koons family and that members of all of these families later
removed to the same county in North Carolina and intermar¬
ried and considering the uncommon name of De vault that ap¬
peared in both places, we can hardly escape believing that
they were the same. This writer believes that the History
by Hazzard errs in saying that Devault Koons ^ the first,
was a native of Pennsylvania, implying that he was born
there and suggests that the Susan Dick account by Hazzard
probably should have included the statement that she was
De vault Koons1 second wife or that her full name was
Margaret Susan Dick, not just Susan Dick.

Devall Coonce (sic) was living in Frederick Co,, Md,
as early as 29 May 1751 when he, together with John Coone
and Peter Apple, witnessed the will of Ballish Fought,

The will of one Devalt Koontz (sic) was dated in Fred¬
erick County, Md., 8 Jan, 1786 and proved 10 Jan. 179iu Its
essentials read as follows:

"As to what goods wherewith it hath pleased God to

help me in this life I give, devise and dispose of the

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same as hereafter mentioned: IMPRIMIS -It Is my will
and order that all my Just debts and funeral charges
be fully paid and discharged out of iry estate - sec¬
ondly I give and oeoueath unto my beloved wife Rozena
Koontz the whole and sole of my household goods and
furniture of whatsoever kind or nature, to her, her
heirs and assigns forever, except the Iron Stove and
Iron Pot rack. If r*y said wife leaves the same county
of Frederick or if she marries after my decease or
when she dies whichever shall hapoen first, then I
rive and beoueath the said stove and pot rack to
Daniel Footney’s oldest son named Jacob Footney his
heirs and assigns forever. Likewise I give and
beoueath to my dear beloved wife Rozena Koontz my mare
and two cows with their increase, ry Plough, Geers,
Collars and all my farming utensials, Goods and
Chattels of whatever kind or future to me in my use
belonging or appertaining and also all my grain that
is now in the ground to her own proper use and service,
her Heirs and Assigns forever except the Iron Stove
and Pot Rack above excepted. I hereby nominate
Stephen Brunner of the County and State aforesaid to
be the whole and sole executor of this ny last will
and testament revoking all other wills etc., etc."

his

Witnesses: Signed Devalt^ a Koontz

Michael Shota

Lodowick Kemp
James Clark

The fact that the remarriage of his wife Rozena was
considered by the testator of the above will suggests that
the testator himself was a comparatively young man, the son
perhaps of the early Devalt. That the maker of the will
was not an elderly man is further suggested by the fact
that he did not so much as imply that he had children.
Devault Koone^, the elder, had three sons who removed to
N<a-th Carolina. Significantly none of them was named
Devault or amr variation of that name, a fact that indicates
that there could have been and probably was a son of that
name who did not Join his brothers in the North Carolina

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trek. The above will did dispose of "grain that is now in
the ground" indicating that the testator was either an owner
or lessee of land in Maryland. This writer looked in the
Frederick Co., Md. courthouse for settlement papers of his
estate or a settlement deed tut was not able to find them
in the limited time at his disposal.

The children of De vault Koons \ the last three accord¬
ing to Hazzard*s History, supra., order of birth not certain,
were:

(1) Devailt (Devalt) Koons Jr.^, d. in Frederick Co., Md.

about 1793/9U, probably a son. See above.

(2) John Koons , (Devault/), who doubtless was the John

Koons listed in the federal census of Wilkes County
in 1790 with a family of two males, aged under 16,
five females whose ages were not indicated, but one
of whom was the female head of the family, and one
slave. He was then living in that part of Wilkes
County that in 1799 became Ashe County, N. C. and in
the same district, namely Morgan, where Peter Eller
and Michael Stockerd (Stoker) lived.

The 1800 census of Ashe County shows him living
there at age over hZ with wife also over and with
two females and one male aged between 16 and 26 and
with another male and female aged between 10 and 16.

He is not shown in the 1810 census of Ashe Co., N. C.
having died prior to May 1807 when his will, not found,
was proved in the Ashe Co. court by Michael Stockard
(Stoker) and Christian Shearer.

The heirs of John Koons^, all of Ashe Co., N. C.,
on 10 June I8l5> sold to David Smith fifty acres of
land located on the south branch of New River in
Ashe Co., N. C. One of these heirs was George Koons
who could have been the George Koons who married
Mary Eller^ of Ashe Co., dau. of Peter^ and Eliza¬
beth (Dick) Eller. The other heirs were Morris
Baker, Absolom Bower, Daniel Miller and Jonathan
Baker, all probably, sons-in~law of John Koons,
deceased, (Deed, Book C, p. b78, Ashe Co., N. C.)
George Koons-^ and his wife Mary Eller-^ had no son
John who appeared in the records but did have sons

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Devault and Gasper. See what is written about
George Koons-3, son of Gasper Koons next below, also
see Eller Family II, page 17 snd Eller Family X,
page Uil herein.

(3) Gasper Koons2, (Devault*) b. 8 Nov. 1759; d. 8 Nov.

1820, aged 61. He became a Cuaker and married, in
1775 (in 1779 is more likely), his first wife, Mercy
(Massie) Preenell, a native of Pa. who d., say about
1796/97. He then married, 3 Nov. 17^7, Abigail
Piggoth (Piggott) who died in 1850, aged 78. She
was a dau. of Jeremiah and Rachel Piggott. He and
his second wife lie buried in the Larlham Cen. at
Richmond, Indiana. (Hassard’a Hlrtory of Henry Co.,
Ind., also Back Creek, N. C. Frienis Meeting Records.)

Gasper Koonse (Koons)2 and Georg* Koonse (Koons )‘
were on the 1779 list of taxables in Randolph Co.,

N. C. and, on 23 Dec. 178li, Gasper Coonse (Koons)'
was warranted land on Little River in Randolph Co.

He also was warranted land there 15 Aug. 1793. One
Leonsad (Leonard) Eller was also granted land in
Randolph Co. (FNCR, 1 Film of Lar.d Grants and List
of Taxables in Randolph Co., N. C. at Genealogical
Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.)

The Back Croek Friends Meeting (Quaker) of
Randolph Co., N. C. records the receival in member¬
ship, on 27 April 1793, of Massa Koons by her own
request and on 27 Jure 1793 the receival of George",
Devoull^, John-\ Jasper^ (sic), Martha' and Mary
Koona^ by request of their father Jasper (sic) Koons2.
Massa Koons, doubtless, was Mercy Koons, wife of
Jasper (Gasper) Koons Sr.2, and the fact that the
five children were received on request of their
father indicates that all of then were minora. The
second marriage of Jasper (sic) Koons* to Abagall
Piggoth (prob. Piggott) was recorded by the Back
Creek Friends Meeting, on 3 Nov. 1797 (Hinahaw).

On 25 June 1808 Gasper (sic) Koons" and his "son
or sons" and Abagall Coonse (sic) and her daughter
Hannah' reouested a certificate from the Back Creek
Friends Meeting to the South West Branch Monthly

Meeting in Miami Co,, Ohio, (sic) and after travel¬
ling six weeks over precarious roads finally arrived
at Whitewater, new Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind, near
the Ohio border. (Hist, of Henry Co., Ind, by George
Hazzard, Vol. II, p. 1163. Also see Back Creek,
Randolph Co., N. C, Friends Monthly Meeting Records.)

On 19 Aug. 1909 Jasper Koons^ and sons John^,
Jasper^ (sic), Jeremiah^, William^, Nathan^, Henryk
and Samuel^ were received by the West Branch Monthly
Friends Meeting in Miami County, Ohio on certificate
from the Back Creek Monthly Meeting in N, C, dated
30 July I808. Abagail Koons ^ and her daughter Hannah^
were also received on the same date. (Hinshaw)

These children doubtless were all minors although the
sons John^ and Jasper^ (Gasper) must have been near
their majorities when the certificate to leave Back
Creek, N. C. was reouested on 2£ June I808. The
West Branch Meeting at that early date served a large
territory in Ohio and Indiana including, probably,
all of what now is Wayne and Henry Counties in Ind.

2

The children of Gasper Koons and his first wife,

Mercy (Massie) Presnell, were, according to records
shown above, also to Hazzard rs Hist, of Henry Co.,
Ind., the following; order of birth not certain:

(1) Davault (Devault) Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault^) b.

say 1780. (He was disowned, 27 June 1801 (sic),
for marrying out of unity, probably for not
marrying a Quaker.)

(2) George Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault^), b. say 1782.

He doubtless was the George Koons who, accord¬
ing to the Back Creek Friends Meeting records
was disowned 27 June 1801 (sic) for marrying
out of unity. Were it not for the early date
of this disownment one would say that he was
the George Koons-^ who married Mary Eller-^, dau.
of Petem and Elizabeth (Dick) Eller shown
under Family II, p. 17 herein. But this latter
George Koons^ and his wife Mary Eller^ were bom
pretty late to have been married or bethrothed
June 1801. Of course, there were some girls

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who married at youthful ages in the pioneer
days and the fact that George and Mary named
one son Gasper and another Devault and named
one dau. Massie strongly indicates that leorge
Koons who married Mary Eller\ was a son of
Gasper* and his first wife Mercy or Massie
Presnell. More is said about this on pp. 11*1
and lb 2 herein.

(3) Martha Koons \ (Gasper , Devault j b. say 1781a;

m. _ Bales and was disowned 31 May 1806

for marrying out of unity.

(1*) Gasper Koons Jr. \ (Gasper^, Devault1), b. say
1767. He may have been the Gasper Koons who
entered 80 acres of land in Lawrence Twsp. of
Marlon Co., Ind., Feb. 1821a. (Hist, of
Indianapolis and Marlon Co., Ind. by 0. L.
Sulgrove, 1881a, p, 66.)

(5) John Koons^, (Gasper^, Devsult1) o. say 1789,

(the Federal Census of Jefferson Co., Iowa for
1.81*0, gave his age as between 50-60); d. 181*9,
in Jefferson Co., Iowa. (Admin, of his estate
given to his widow Bridget Koons, li* Dec. 181*9.)
His wife’s first name was Bridget, bom in
North Carolina in 1797. (Fed. census of Jef¬
ferson Co. for 1850.) On 22 June 1857 she was
referred to as "Trustee for the family of John
Koons, deceased, and as such bought land in
Jefferson Co., Iowa, from David and Christian
Sears. On 22 June 1867 a suit in Chancery was
filed to force a distribution of the estate of
John Koons \ deceased, and in same the heirs
at law of the said John Koons (as of the Oct.
term 181*9 of the District Court in and for the

d,

County of Jefferson, State of Iowa) were m
they being Rebecca Koons\ Dillon Koons^, Nancy
Caldwell^ and Gasper Koons^ as daughters and

sons, and Eliza Koons1’. Martha Koons Sarah

5 5 5

Koons , Henry Koons , William Koons and John

A. Koons'" as grandchildren and children of his

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3

deceased sons and Bridget Koons his widow and
administrator of the estate of John Koons^,
deceased* (Deed Book 6, p. JLj.82 , Jefferson Co.,
Iowa,) According to the 1850 Fed, Census of
Jefferson Co., Iowa, Bridget Koons^, aged 53,
born in North Carolina, was living in a home
of her own with Sarah Koons, aged 17 and Henry
Koons, aged 13* livirg with her. They doubt¬
less were the grandchildren of the same names
mentioned in the Chancery suit above mentioned,
Sarah being a child of Allen Koons, deceased,
and Henry the son, probably, of Shadrack Koons
or of a deceased son whose name was not found
in the records,

3

John Koons^ removed with his father Gasper

p

Koons to the West Branch Friends Meeting in
Miami Co., Ohio in l808/09» He removed to
Jefferson County, Iowa about 1836 and died
there in 18U9 • His wife, Bridget Koons, sur¬
name not found, was still living in 1867. The
Federal Census of Jefferson County, Iowa for
1850 gave her age as 53 and North Carolina as
the state of her birth. She may not have been
his first wife and not the mother of any child
born before 1821, Deed Book 6, page 1*82 and
probate court records of Jefferson County,

Iowa show the children of John Koons^ to have
been the following, order of birth not certain:

(1) George Koons\ b., say about 18H*; d, 1839
(Inv, of his estate was filed by Mary
Koons 25 Nov, 1839 with Peter Eller^
signing as her surety,) He married, 1
Sept, 1836, in Henry Co,, Ind,, Mary
(Polly) Eller-’, dau, of David^ and
Tabitha (Judd) Eller, b, in North Carolina,
22 Sept. 1820. David Eller1* was a son
of John Eller^ (Peter^, George Michael
Eller^). She married 2nd,, 8 Aug. I8i±2,
in Jefferson Co,, Iowa, as her 2nd,
husband, Claiborne C, Tinsley, b, 27 Dec,

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1807 In Amherst Co., Va. and still living
in 1879, and by him had children, (1)
David E. Tinsley; (2) Alma Tinsley; (3)
Kary J. Tinsley; (I*) Zachary T. Tinsley;
(9) Henry F. Tins lev and (6) Alice
Tinsley who died in infancy. (See Eller
Family VI, p. 69 herein.)

George Koons 44 and his wife, Kary Eller
had two daughters as follows:

(1) Elixa KoonsC, b. 1837. (Fed. Census

Jefferson Co., Ia. 1690) She was
probably the Eliza Koons who m. , 8
Sept. 1899, Jacob L. fyers, (Jeff.
Co., Ia. Marriages, D, p. 200.)

(2) Martha Koons'', b. 1839. (Fed. Census

Jefferson Co., Ia. 1890) She was
probably the Martha Koons who m.,

2li Feb. 1896, Brinton Hughes.

(Jeff. Co., Ia. marriages D, p,

102.)

(2) Allen Koons*4, b., say about 1816; d. Jan.

lBliO; ». 16 Mch. 1837, in Henry Co., Ind.
Sarah Adams. His will was dated in Jef¬
ferson Co., Iowa 7 Jan. 181*0 and proved
6 Feb. I81i0. His will mentioned his wife
Sarah and his "father" John Koons^ and
two children as follows.

(1) John A. Koons0'.

(2) SarAh Koons C.

(3) Gasper Koons*4, b. 1817 in N. C. (Federal

Census of Jefferson Co., Ia. 1890.) He
m. , licence dated in Jefferson Co., Iowa,
11 June 1839, Susan Byrnes, b. 1829 in
Kentucky. On 6 Sept. 181*9 Bridget Koona^
and Dillon Roans*4, were appointed his
guardians, he being called insane.
Evidently his affliction was not of long
standing because he married, had children
and owned and sold lands in Jefferson Co.
The 1890 Fed. Census of Jefferson Co.,

Ia. listed him as idiotic, aged 33, and

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born in N. C. with wife Susannah, aged
25, bom in Ky. and with children as
follows, the name spelled Coontz in all
places:

(1) Polly A, Coontz , aged 8*

(2) Jno. Coontz aged 6.

(3) Joseph Coontz^, aged 1*.

Shadrack Koons^4, b. say abort 18 19,

probably a son, and the same as the
Shadrick Coons (sic) who m. , 11 Jan.

I838, in Henry Co., Ind., June Lees on.

He was a debtor to the Jefferson Co.,
Iowa estate of George Koons^ along with
Dillon1' and Jasper Koons^. He was not
mentioned in ary of the settlement
papers of John Koons so it is assumed
he was not then living. The grand¬
children, William and Henry Koons shown
in the Chancery suit papers, above
referred to, may have been his children.
Dillon Koons^, b. 1821. (Fed. Census,
Jefferson Co., Ia. 1850) His wife was
Jemima, b. 1830 in Ky. whose surname
was not found. The 1850 census listed
them with one child as follows;

(1) David Koons^, b. 181*8.

(2) There probably were other children,
Joseph Koons^, b., say about 1822; d. 181*9.

By a nuncupative will sworn to by
Dillon^4 and Nancy Koons^ he bequeathed
all he possessed to his "mother Bridget
Koons". (Adm. Acct., Box 31, Jefferson
Co., Iowa. Also Deed, Book K, p. 379,
Jeff. Co., Ia.) He evidently died un¬
married and without issue,

Nancy Koons^, b. 1827; m., 5 April 181*7,

"at house of Mrs. Koons of Locust Grove
Twsp., Jeff. Co., Ia.", Barton W. Cald¬
well. Her age was given as 20 and his
as 21.

Rebecca Koons , b. 1829; m. 16 July 18 50

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"at home of Bridget Coons (sic)" in
Jefferson Co., Iowa, Allen Ferguson of
Lee Co., Iowa. Her age was given as 21
and his as ?li.

(6) Mary Koon a\ (Gasper^, Devault*), b. say about

1792. He record f ound of her.

(7) Daughter Koons', (Gasper?, Devault*) who died

in inf ancy .

The children of Gasper Koons £ and Abagall Piggot,
his second wife were, according to Hasiard’s Hist,
of Henry Co., Ind., the following, order of birth
not certain:

(6) Eldest son\ (Gasper^, Devault*), died in infancy.

(9) Jeremiah Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault*).

(10) William Koona^, (Gasper^, DeraultM.

(11) Nathan Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault*).

(12) Henry Koons1', (Gasper**, Devault*).

(13) Samuel Koons\ (Gasper^, Devault*).

(11) Joseph Koons\ (Oasper**, Devault*),

1811; d. 10 Nov. 1878; m., 6 Nov.

Lucinda Ray who d. 21 Nov. i860,
dau. of Thomas and Martha Ray who emigrated
to Henry Co., Ind. from Virginia. Both Joseph
and Lucinda Koone lie burled in the Friends
Cemetery near Franklin, Wayne Co., Ind.

b. 17 Feb.
16*,

She was a

The children of Joseph Koons and his wife
Lucinda Ray were:

(1) Sarah Koona^.

(2) Thomas Koona^4.

(3) Benjamin Franklin Koons , b. 23 Nov. 1839)

m., 27 June 1861, Mahala Deardorff, dau,
of Jacob and Sophia Deardorff. He was
frequently called upon to fill offices
of trust and was a Deacon of the German
Baptist Church. A biography of him
appears in Hariard1 s Hist, of Henry Co.,
Ind., Vol. II, p. 1163.

Children: ^

(1) John L. Koons •

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(2) Albert Koons .

(3) Thomas Benton Koons^.

(1*) Newton Clay Kocns^.

(9) Cora See Koons m. Lorenzo D* Adam¬
son.

(6) Charley Koons •

(7) Harvey L. Koons'’, m. Ina Thompson.

(8) Robert H. Koons m. Josie Stanley*

(9) Perry 0* Koons

(1*) George R. Koons^. He probably was the

George R. Koons whose obituary is shown
in March 20, 1918 Henry Co* newspapers*

(9) Samuel Koons^.

(6) Joseph Koons^.

(7) Pleasant M. Koons^.

(8) Hannah Louisa Koons^.

(9) John L. Koons^1.

(10) Nancy Ellen Koons .

(19) Benjamin Koons^, (Gasper^, Devailt^).

(16) Jesse Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault ^).

(17) Rachel Koons3, (Gasper?, Devault^),

(18) Susannah Koons^, (Gasper^, Devault^-),

(19) Hannah Koons^, (Gasper^, Deva ult1).

2 1

(1*) George Koons , (Devault ■*■). He may have been the

George Koontz (sic) who was a member of the N. C.
House from Wilkes Co«, N» C* when Ashe County was
created in 1799, also a member of the Senate from
Ashe Co* in 1800-1802. Name sometimes spelled Koonce.
He as well as John or Gasper could have been the
father of George Koons^ who m. Mary3, dan* of Peter
Eller^, but the fact that the 1800 Fed. Census gave
him no son makes it very doubtful that the said
George Koons^ could have been his son. (See Eller
Family II, p* 17 and Eller Family X, p* Uj.1 herein.)

The Federal Census of Ashe Co., N. C. for 1800
lists the family of George Koons, age over 1*9, with
wife also over 1*9 and one female, aged between 16-26.
It also lists as above stated, the family of John
Koons, aged over 1*9 with wife also over 1*9 with two
females and one male, aged between 16-26 and one

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male and one female aged between 10-16 and one male
and one female aged between 10-16. Ouite certainly
George** and John? were brothers of Gasper^ and sons
of Oevault^ Koons. Apparently neither George? or
John? became Cuakers as Gasper? did.

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HENRY ELLER

Son of Peter Eller, Family II, p. 17.

FAMILY XI

HENRY ELLER3, (Peter2, George Michael1), b. 1786/88;
family records said he died about 1876 at the age of more
than 90 years. The 1850, i860 and 1870 census of Ashe Co.
give his age as 62, 72 and 80 respectively. These records
indicate a birth year of 1786/88 and a death year of about
1876. He married, about 1812/13, Elizabeth Johnson, b.,
according to the 1850 census of Ashe Co., N. C., in 1791/2,
her age being given as 58 years. The i860 and 1870 census*
give her age as 68 and 80 respectively. She was bora in
Iridel Co., N. C. Henry Eller entered 250 acres of land on
the North Fork of New River, 16 July 1812. This land was
surveyed 8 Sept. 1813 and granted to him 23 Dec, 1813.

(Grant 8U0, Secy, of State* 3 Office, Raleigh, N. C.) The
land was on the north side of "feneck” (Phoenix) Mountain
and bordered the 150 acre farm surveyed to Michael Stucker
(Stokard, Stoker). The survey, dated 8 September 1813, was
attested by Peter and Jacob Eller. Henry Eller figured in
several land transactions in Ashe County after 1812. In
one, dated 9 Dec. 1819, he purchased 90 acres of land from
George Koons for $150.00. This land was in Ashe County on
the south side of the North Fork of New River wto ry south
line and down to the conditional line made between Abraham
May and John Dick Jr. against the mouth of Piney Creek being
part of the 150 acre tract where Thomas Brooks Mill formerly
stood.” George Koons, doubtless, was Henry Eller*3 brother-
in-law, the hisband of Mary Eller, shown in Family X herein.
The sale was made about the time that George and Mary Koons
left North Carolina for their new home in Henry County, Ind.
Mary Koons* name does not appear in the deed but this is not
strange because the dower rights of wives were often not
mentioned in early deeds of Ashe and Wilkes County. Later
deeds indicate that Henry Eller* s farm in 181*5 consisted of
2l*0 acres.

The records show that Henry Eller* s brother-in-law,
Michael Stoker (Stokard, Stucker) as well as his brother-in-
law, George Koons, lived on farms adjoining his on the North
Fork of New River. His brothers, Peter and Jacob, lived

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near by while his brother John lived on the south fork of
New River near where Peter Eller Sr., their father, late
deceased, lived. About 1816 John and Peter moved to lower
altitudes in Wilkes County, John to Lewis Fork Creek west
of Wilkesboro on a far* of L51 acres and Peter to a fana on
Ce roles Creek.

Henry Eller is shown in the 1810 Federal Census of
Ashe County at the age of between 16 and 26 with wife of
some age but no children. He is also shown in the Ashe Co.
census of 1820, 1830, 18L0, 18%, i860 and 1870.

The children of Henry Eller and his wife Elizabeth
Johnson were:

(1) John Eller4, aged 36 in the 18% and 58 in the 1870

census; m. Susan Hawkins, b. in Virginia, aged 31 in
the 18% ind 55 in the 1870 census. Their children
according to the Federal Census' of Ashe Co., Plney

Creek Twsp., were:

(1) William Eller'’, aged li* in the 1850 census. He
m., 19 Aug. 1856, Elisabeth Stike and is shown
in the i860 and 1870 census of Ashe Co., N. C.,
aged 2L and 3b respectively with wife Eliza¬
beth, aged 25 and 35 respectively and with
children as follows; (1) John Eller^, aged 2 in
the i860 census and not shown in the 1870
census; (2) Moses Eller^, aged 9 in the 1870
census; (3) William Eller^, aged 6 in the 1870
census; (ii) Janas Eller^, aged 3 in the 1870
census.

Famsey (female, probably Fanny) Eller\ aged 12
in the 1850 census.

Mary Eller'’, aged 9 in the 1850 census.

James Eller , aged li in the 1850 census.

David Eller'’, aged 7/12 in the 1850 census. He
m. Jane Parsons (Powers). He was a Baptist
Minister.

Rebecca Eller , aged 15 in the 1870 census,

(2) Oeorge Eller^, b. 1820 (family record); m. Miss Howell.

He probably was the Oeorge Eller, farmer, listed in
the 1850 census of Ashe County, aged 30, with wife
Mallnda, aged 29 and with a son John Eller, aged 2.

(2)

(3)

<k)

CO

(6)

In the i860 census of Ashe Co* he is listed as aged
39 with wife Malinda of same age and with a dau,

Mary, aged li. In the 1870 census Malinda Eller,
aged Ii8, is shown living alone with children, (1)

Mary Eller'’, aged Hi and (2) Martha Eller^, aged 9*
The son, John Eller'’, shown in the 1850 census pro¬
bably died young*

Hannah Eller^, b. 1822 (family record), not shown in
1850 census*

Mary Eller4^ b. 1826 (family record).

Peter Ellei^, b. 1828 (family record); m. Elizabeth
Brooks who may have been his first wife, A Peter
Eller, aged 27, 37 and U7 respectively in the 1850,
i860 and 1870 census* of Ashe County, N. C., is
shown with a wife Nancy, aged 2U, 3h and U 3 respec¬
tively in the same census lists with children as
shown below. He died intestate 3 April 1898, at his
farm in Walnut Hill Township of Ashe County known as
the "old Peter Eller Farm of 107 acres," the settle¬
ment papers mentioning a wife Nancy and children as
indicated below.

(1) Calvin Eller , aged 7 in the 1850, 15 in the

i860 and 25 in the 1870 census* of Ashe County,

(2) David Eller^, aged U in the 18 50, 12 in the i860

and 21 in the 1870 census* of Ashe County*

(3) Hemy Eller^, aged 2 in the 1850, 10 in the i860

and 21 in the 1870 census* of Ashe County.

(U) Linville Eller*’, aged 8 in the i860 and 18 in the
1870 census* of Ashe County.

( 5) Luke Eller^, aged 6 in the i860 and 16 in the

1870 census of Ashe County.

(6) Jane Eller'’, aged 3 in the i860 census, but not

shown in the 1870 census.

(7) Mary Eller^, not shown in the i860 census but

shown at age 13 in the 1870 census. She pro¬
bably was the same as Jane Eller'’ next above,
her full name being Mary Jane Eller'’ and the
Mary J. Hamby, wife of Clive Hamby, shown in
the settlement papers of her father* s estate,

(8) George Eller-’, aged one month in the i860 and 9

in the 1870 census. He and his wife Rosabella

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are mentioned in the settlement papers of his
father's estate*

(9) Elizabeth Eller-*, aged 6 in the 1870 census of

Ashe Co., and as Betty Musgrave in the settle¬
ment papers of her father's estate*

(ID) James Eller**, aged 1 in the 1870 census of Ashe
Co* and the J. F. Eller and his wife Ellta J*
mentioned in the settlement papers of his
father's estate*

(6) Calvin Eller , b. 1030 (family record); m. Caroline

Turner. He was a captain in the Arry of the Confed¬
erate States of America in the War between the States.
He removed to Independence, Va. The i860 census of
Ashe Co., N. C* lists him as a firmer, aged 30 with
wife Caroline, aged 30, both bom in N* C., with
children as follows;

(1) Amanda Eller^, aged 10*

(2) Ellen Eller'’, eged 9.

(3) Mary Eller , aged 7*

(ii) Rachel Eller ', aged lu

(5) Buelah Eller , aged 2*

(6) Other children may have been bom later*

(7) Jacob Eller\ b. 1832; da 1099 (family reconi). He

was given the age of 20 in the i860 census of Ashe
Co., N. C. He m., 2h Nov* 1053, Ellen Jones, aged
27 in the i860 census* He was a Baptist Minister*

The i860 and 1070 census of Ashe Co., N. C. and his
will, dated 1 Sept. 1090, (Wilkes Co., N. C. Will
Book E, p. 103), show their children to have been
the following*

(1) Marion Eller**, male child, aged 5 in the i860

and 15 in the 1870 census; also mentioned in
his father's will*

(2) Louisa Eller**, aged 3 in the i860 and 1L in the

1870 census'; also mentioned in his father's
will* She *. Jesse Stewart*

(3) Elizabeth Eller*', aged 2 in the i860 and not

mentioned in the 1070 census'; also was not
mentioned in her father's will. She probably
died young*

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(1*)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(S)

Aljneda Eller , aged 1 in the i860 and 10 in the
1870 census of Ashe Co., also mentioned in her
father1 s will. She m. William May.

Mary Eller-*, aged 9 in the 1870 census of Ashe Co.;
also mentioned in her father* s will. She m. ,
1881, John A. Pierce and had the following
children, (1) Jacob Pierce; (2) Clyde Pierce;

(3) tydia Pierce; (U) Zella Pierce.

George W. Eller'*, aged 5 in the 1870 census of
Ashe Co., also mentioned in his father*s will.

Alice Eller-*, aged 2 in the 1870 census of Ashe
Co., N. C. She m. Isam Thompson.

Horton Eller'*, youngest child, b. 1870, mentioned
in his father* s will. He m. Lina, whose sur¬
name was not found. She was living at Stur¬
gills, Ashe Co., N. C, in 1929* There is a
gravestone in the Brier Creek Baptist Church
Cemetery about 16 miles east of Wilkesboro,

N, C. that reads "James Horton Eller, born 2
August 1870; d, 18 July 1920." Family records
say he was accidentally killed.

(8) Rebecca Eller4, b. I83h, aged 16 in the 18 50 census of

Ashe Co., N. C. ^

(9) Ammon (Hannah) Eller , aged 10 in the 1850 census of

Ashe Co., N. C.

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h

SIMEON ELLER

Son of John Eller, Family VI, p« 69.

FAMILY XII

SIMEON ELLER , (JohrP, Peter^, George Michael*) was
born 8 Sept. 179ii , in that part of Wilkes Co., N. C. that
later became Ashe County. He was stricken ill while at the
home of his son James who was then living on near oy Beaver
Creek in Wilkes County and died there 19 June 1850. (Bible
record.) He married, as her first husband, licence dated
in Wilkes County 16 April 1817, Fanry McNiel daughter of
James McNiel^, (Rev. George McNiel*), and his wife Mary
Shepherd. She was bom 12 Jan. 1799 and died L Oct. 1856.
(Bible record.) She married, 5 August 1851, as her second
husband, Colonel Isaac Brown bit had no children by him.
Both Simeon and his wife Fanny lie buried in the New Hope
Baptist Church burial ground located about two miles north
west of Parlears Post Office and some 6 miles north west of
North Wilkesboro near Rendervous Mountain in Wilkes County.
Their gravestones bear the following inscriptions .

"To the memory of Simeon Eller who was bom on the 8th
day of Sep tender 179L and who departed this life on
the 19th day of June 1850. Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord.”

"To the memory of Fanny Brown, first consort of Simeon
Elder and then of Colonel Isaac Brown bom Dec. 11,
1798 and died Oct. b, 1656, aged 57 years, 9 months
and 23 d^rs."

As will be noted the latter gravestone record does not
<*iite conform to the Bible record shown above. The Bible
record doubtless is the correct one.

The grandfather of Fanny McNiel was the Rov, George
McNiel, a pioneer Baptist preacher of Wilkes County. He
was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, it is believed, about
1720 and died in Wilkes Co., N. C., 7 June 1805. He came
first to Virginia where he married Mary Coates and devoted
his life to Christian teaching, first as a Presbyterian but
later as a Baptist which then had a large following in

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southern Virginia and North Carolina. He became identified
with the Sancfcr Creek Baptist movement wherein he was as¬
sociated with such leaders as John Gano, the Murphy brothers
and Andrew Baker. He was chaplain in the regiment of Col.
Benjamin Cleveland at King’s Mountain and later the regis¬
trar of deeds in Wilkes Co. (See McNiel Family herein.)

Simeon Eller removed with his father from Ashe to
Wilkes Co. in 1816 and lived on one of his father’s farms
until 1822 when, on Jan. (June) 1st. of that year he pur¬
chased, fran Larkin McNiel, his brother-in-law, three tracts
of land on Cole’s Creek, a branch of the North Fork of Lewis
Creek in Wilkes Co., containing 250 acres. Witnesses to the
deed were John Judd and J. A. McNiel. (Deed, Book K, p. 269,
Wilkes Co.) On Jan, (June) 1, 1822, Larkin McNiel conveyed
to Peter Eller, Simeon’s younger brother, 50 acres of land
on Bills Nob, on the North Fork of Lewis Fork Creek, said
land adjoining other land of Peter Eller and bordering also
the land of Simeon Eller. The deed was witnessed by Simeon
Eller, (Deed, Book K, p, 269.)

The will of Simeon Eller was signed 18 June 1850, the
day before his death. He was desperately ill at the time
having been stricken on June 16 with what was then diag¬
nosed as acute indigestion. Today it would probably be
called a coronary heart attack or acute appendicitis. Dr.
Scroggs was called and the treatment he prescribed was
shown in the bill presented by Scroggs and Hackett. It was
pretty rigorous treatment as the latter’s bill shows.

"Mr. Simeon Eller, Dr.

To Scroggs and Hackett
1850, June 16th - To visit from Mr. Jones.

Stay all night* Venesection. $ 3«50

Various doses medicine etc, June 17th Visit.

Mileage. Close attention & detention 2 days
& nights. Various medicines. Mustard Plaster,
Injections Repeatedly - Laudanum, Oil Turpen¬
tine, Croton Oil, Opium, Nitre, Sudlitz Powders,

Close watching, etc., etc., all the time lit, 00

"1891 Sept* 18, by Harvey Eller, Note in full $17.50
Signed, Scroggs and Hackett
A. A. Hackett"

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On June 18th when his death appeared Imminent his will
was drawn by Dr. Scroggs and, being too weak and ill to
sign his name, legalized it with a mark. (See letter of
Harvey Augustus Eller to this writer, dated L Feb. 1925# )

It gave his land and property after debts were paid to his
wife, Fanny, who was to possess it until his youngest child
became of age or married when said land and property was to
be sold and the proceeds divided, one third to said wife
and the balance "equally divided among all ry children,"
none named. He gave to his "youngest son, Thomas Jefferson
Eller" his "rifle gun" to oe accounted for by him in his
settlement with the executor# He willed that "if this ry
last will and testament be wanting in legal form and word
my executor with his council (shall) so alter or modify it
so that it may legally carry out y designs as laid down."

He designated his son, Harvey Eller, to be executor. Witnes¬
ses were Thomas Carlton, James Eller and A. A, Scroggs Jr.

His personal property was considerable and as listed
in the inventory of his estate consisted of 28 head of hogs,
111 head of cattle, 9 head of horses, 5 head of sheep, 500

bushels of com, 3 stacks of oats, 5 stacks of hay, house¬

hold furniture, kitchen fiimiture, 2 side saddles, 1 man’s
sad.*le, 1 loom, farming utensils, a set of smith’s tools,

2 wagons, one shot gun and one rifle.

The "rifle gun," mentioned in his will, was one made by
himself, he having been a blacksmith and skilled gunsmith as

well as the operator of a farm. The writer has not seen the

gun but has been told that it is still preserved and owned
by a descendant of Simeon’s son, Anderson Eller, who re¬
ceived it by the will of his brother, Thomas Jefferson
Eller, who was killed in 1863, at the battle of Chancellors-
ville, while serving in the Confederate Amy.

Simeon Eller, despite the handicap of his time and
place of residence, made of himself a prominent and educated
man. His handwriting showed the bold and uniform hand of
the self e'iicated man of the old school. His eleven child¬
ren all received the best schooling that the community pro¬
vided but claimed that their father taught them more than
the schools. Together with his brother, Peter, who was even
more prominent, he having been chosen and rechosen to re¬
present his district in the State Legislature, Simeon was a

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prime mover in establishing the Wilke sboro Academy, one of
the earliest schools of influence and importance in Western
North Carolina. These two brothers rallied the people of
their community in this and other worthy public movements
and in gratitude for their efforts Peter was appointed
Colonel and Simeon Captain in the Wilkes County Militia
which was a regularly drilled guard subject to orders from
the Governor of the State.

Simeon Eller and his wife were devoted members of the
New Hope Baptist Church, both having been founder members
when the church was constituted 26 June 1830. They served
it faithfully in many ways, contributing to its needs and
raising their children in its faith to which they all clung
loyally throughout their lives.

In stature Simeon Eller was remembered as being tall
and inclined to be portly. His untimely death occurring at
the prime of life interrupted a career of worthy service
that might have led far.

The children of Simeon Eller^ and his wife, Fanny
McNiel were:

(1) Mary (Polly) Eller , b. , 1818, in Wilkes Co., N. C.

(1850 Fed. Census); d. 189k in Wilkes Co. She m. ,
licence dated 13 Dec. 1838 in Wilkes Co., Esquire
Allen Whittington, b. 1801. (1850 Fed. Census) She

was his second wife. The family lived in Wilkes Co.

Their children, all born in Wilkes Co., N. C. were:
(1) Emily Whittington^, b. 1838/39 (1850 Fed. Census
of Wilkes Co.); m., 1st., 9 March 1859, Neil
Vannoy, b, 17 Dec. 1838, son of Rev. James and
Sally (Shepherd) Vannoy. She m. 2nd., Alex¬
ander Faw, (See Vannoy Fam. VI, p. 361 herein.)

Children by first marriage with Neil Vannoy:

(1) Sarah Jane Vannoy?, m. Vance Whittington

and had children, (1) Elizabeth (Lizzie)
Whittington®, m. Adam Staley. Had
several children.

(2) Cleveland Whittington?, m. Annie Johnson.

Had several children.

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(3) Maggie Whittington , m. Monroe Joines. Had
one daughter.

(li) Laura Whittington , m. Robey Staley. Had
3 children; (1) Nellie Staley; (2) E*na
Staley; (3) Joseph Staley.

Children of second marriage with Alexander Fav:

(5) Lillie Faw7, m. Uriah Pilkenton.

(6) Julia Faw7 ir. Phineas Whittington.

(7) Thomas Faw , m. Lou Witherspoon.

(0) Uriah Fav7^ m. Martha Whittington.

(9) Hettie Faw , m. Zeno Church.

(?) Elvira Nancy Whittington*, b. 10 Nov. 10L3; d.

lii Sept. 1931* She a., 17 Feo. 1067, Rufus Win¬
field Colvard, b. 0 Aug. 1032; d. IS July 1091.
He was a son of Wade H. Colvard and his wife,
Phebe V annoy. The family were members of the
Methodist Church and lived at Wilbar, N. C.,
Wilkes County.

Their children were : ^

(1) Mary Ida Colvard7, b. 16 Feb. 1060; d. 26

May 19L6; m., Aug. 1096, Thomas R. Col¬
vard. Had 5 children.

(2) Anna May Colvard?, b. , 21 Key 1071; d. 19

Sept. 19LS; 23 Feb. 10oPf oiell

Parsons.

(3) Fit* Pufus Colvard7, b. 6 May 1073; d. 0

Aug.

(U) Beniamin H. Colvard7, b. 10 Feb. 1076; d.

22 Aug. 1^30; m. , 1st., in 1905, Alverda
Forrester; m. 2nd., Cora Taylor. Had 3
children.

(5) Sally Virginia (Jennie) Colvard , b. 1 Aug.
1070; still living, 1956, at Wilbar, N.C.;
m. 2\x March 1^01, Henry Neil Vannoy. He
was a son of Lewis W. Vannoy. (See Vanncy
Fam. VI, p, 361 herein.) Their children
were (1) Pearl Vannoy, died in infancy;

(2) Ora Elvira Vannoy, b. 9 May l^Ob; d.

15 Jan. 1950. She was a teacher, unmar¬
ried; (3) Mabel Louise Vannoy, d. 1920;

(b) Edgar Lewis Vannoy, d. 1920.

(6) Judge Fowle Colvard^, b. 9 Sept. 1881; d.

30 April 1902.

(7) William Edgar Colvard , b. 2h Jan. 1881;;

d. 19 March 19U6; m., 9 May 1909, Sue
Taylor. Children, (1) Rufus Winfeld
Colvard, b. 11 Sept. 1906; m, Rena Love;
(2) Virginia Colvard, b., 1; June 1908;
m. 8 June 1932, Deane McMillan.

(3) Lee (Leander) E. Whittington^, b. 18U9A6; m.

1st, Sal lie Colvard, dau. of Phebe Colvard and
grand dau. of Rev. James Vannoy; m. 2nd., Sarah
Snyder.

Children by first marriage with Sallie Colvard
were :

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(1) Julia Whittington , m. Robert Bowlin. Had

several children.

(2) Mary P. Whittington*^, m. Dr. Edward Warren.

Had two daughters.

(3) Todd Whittington*^, m. Ollie Staley. Had

several children.

(M Hamp Whittington*^, m. Cora Staley. Had
several children.

(9) Fowle Whittington^, m. Nancy Dancy. Had
several children.

Children by 2nd. marriage with Sarah Snyder:

(6) Frank Whittington^, m. Mary Whittington.

Had one dau. named Nena Dell Whittington®,

(7) Charles Whittington*^, m. Maude Dancy. Had

a son named Oscar Whittington®.

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(8) Ila Whittirgton , m. John Dancy and had

children, (1) Nona Dancy®, m. Joe Palmer;
(2) Maggie Dancy®, m. Burl Hayes; (3)
Vallie Dancy®, m. Clayton Kilby; (U)
Raymon Dancy®, m. Ruth Prevett Cooper;

(9) Jay Dancy , m. Laura Miller.

(1;) Benjamin F, Whittington^, b. l81;9/90; m. Rachel
Colvard, dau. of Phebe Colvard and grand dau.
of Rev. James Vannoy. (See Vannoy Family VI, p.

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361 herein.)

Children: ^

(1) Monroe Whittington , m. Dora Whittington.

Had several children.

(2) Octavi* Whittington7, m. 7eb McNiel. Had

several children.

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(3) Hansford Whittington , m. Octavla Welch.

Had two sons.

(li) Spainhour Whittington , m. Ila Whittington.
Had four children.

(5) Sallle Whittington7, m. 1st. Enos Barrej

m. 2nd., Newton Miller. Had several
children.

(6) Jennie Whittington7, m. Fred Shumate. Had

several children.

(7) John Whittington7, m. Etta Kilby. Had

several children.

(8) Dollie Whittington7, *• John Staley. Had

one son named Roscoe.

By his first wife Esq. Allen Whittington had children
( c) William R. Whit ton^, m. 9 March IP59, America
Eller*’, b. 1812 (1850 Fed. Census) In Wilkes

Co.j d. 1903 In Alleghe^r Co., N. C. She m.,
2nd., Nathan Weaver and by him had a daughter
named Nora Weaver. She was a dau. of Simeon*4
and Family (McNiel) Eller and a sister of the
second wife of her husband’s father.

(6)

(7)

Children of William Whittington and hie wife,
America Eller:

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(1) Thomas Whittington who resided in Washing¬

ton, D. C.

(2) Gaither Whittington^, b. ca. 1867, who ».

Ella Phelps ard resided rear Farson,
Wapello Co., Iowa. (See p. 187)

(3) Nora Whittington7.

James Whittington^*, b. 1832. (1850 Fed. Census

of Wilkes Co., N. C.)

Marlah E. Whl ttl njrton6, b., 103li (1050 Fed.
Census of Wilkes Co. He m. 21 Doc. 1855 in

Wilkes County, James H. Vannoy,

(8) Thomas Whittington^, b, 1836. (1890 Fed. Census

of Wilkes Co.)

Harvey Eller"*, b., 2h March 1819, in Wilkes Co., N. C.
d«, 3 Nov, 1906 in Wapello Co., Iowa. He married,

29 Nov. 18U1, in Wilkes Co., N. C., Mary Caroline
Vannoy, b., 18 Feb. 1823, in Wilkes Co* and d,, 18
Jan. 190b, in Wapello Co., Iowa, See Family XIII,
p. 188 herein for children.

John Cleveland Eller'*, b. 6 July 1822 in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.; d., 12 Nov. 1892 on his farm near Trumbull,
Clay Co., Nebraska; m. 18 Feb. I81i9, in Wilkes Co.,
N. C., Jane Rebecca Montgomery, b. 1 July 1827 in
Wilkes Co.; d. 2li July 1909 in Clay Co., Nebraska,
She was a dau. of Hugh Montgomery. See Family XIV,
p. 292 herein for children.

William Eller'*, b. 1829/26, (1990 Fed. Census), in
Wilkes Co., N. C.j d* 9 Aug. 1876 near Harvard, Clay
County, Nebraska. He married, licence granted in
Wilkes Co., 20 Dec. 18U9, Catherine Parnell, b.,
1826/27, in Wilkes Co.; d, near Harvard, Nebraska,
date of death not found. Her father was a drummer
boy at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, N. C. , 19
March 1781. The family emigrated to Jefferson Co.,
Iowa in 1893, later removing to Harvard, Clay Co,,
Nebraska where they lived and died.

Their children, all of Clay Center, Nebraska except
as noted, were:

(1) James Calloway Eller^, b. l8U6/li7 (1890 Fed.

Census, Wilkes Co.); m, Lucy Wright, dau. of
William and Mary (Lamb) Wright and grand dau,
of Mahlon Wright, an early settler of Wapello
Co., Iowa. He lived in Folsom, California,

(2) Henryetta Eller , b. I8I47A8 (1890 Fed. Census).

She married, Jefferson Co., Iowa, 23 July 1869
Adalbert Peck, b. 18L7, of Wapello Co., Iowa.

(3) Mary Eller^, b. 18^9/90 (1990 Fed. Census).

(li) Thomas J. Eller^, m. Clara Wright, sister of

Lucy Wright, the wife of his brother Calloway

Ellar*.

(5) David Eller , a Baptist Minister*

(6) Frank Bller^.

(7) Robert M. Eller6.

(8) Angeline Eller6, ■». Kr. Hackett of Harvard, Neor.

(9) America Eller6, m. John Knorr.

(10) Martha Eller6, n. Cleon Gould.

(11) Fanny Eller6.

James Eller , b., 20 (25) June la27, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.j d., 10 March 1026, on his fare* at Bina, Ashe
Co., N. C. He n., 21* Oct. 101*9, (licence dated 6
Oct. 151*9), Mary Ann Carlton, b, 1< Aug. 1°30, in
Wilkes Co.; d., 30 Aug. 1021, In Ashe Co., K. C.

She was a dau. of Thomas Carlton Esn. of Beaver Creek
N. C. See Family X7, page 269 herein for children.
Nancy EllerC, b. , 1°?0, lr. Wilkes C?.f N. C.:

licence granted in Wilkes Co., 7 March 15J*6,

Jesse Vannoy. Mo children. See Vannoy Fam. , p. #3.
David Eller*', 6., 10 July 1830, in Wllices Co* , i. C.;
died, 13 Sept. 1862, at Richmond, Va. (gravestone).

He a., 1 Feb. IP'S*, Mary (Polly) MeMlel, dm*., pro¬
bably, of John and Rachel (Eller) KcKlel. She was
b. 16 Key 1832) d. 26 Nov. 1901 (gravestone in New
Hope Baptist Cem.). He was Orderly Sergeant in Co*

K, 53 N. C. Regijaent of the Confederate Army. He
was wounded at Orewry's bluff, Va. and removed to
Richmond where he died. His bo<ty was later removed
and interred in the H*w Hope Cemetery 6 miles N. W.
of North Wilkesboro, N. C. There were no children.
Jesse Franklin Ellerr, Captain, b., in Wilkes Co., N.C.
17 Dec. 1635; d* 5 Nov. lOQO, near Atkins, Ssyth Co.,
Va. He married, 26 April 1858, Mary Ann Laxton, b. 1
Jan. 181*0; d. 11* Dec. 1900. See Family XVI, p. 277
herein for children.

Anderson Eller*', b. 17 Jan. 1^33* in Wilkes Co., N. C.
He married, 31 Jan. 18*3*, in Wilkes Co., Alva McNiel,
The 1660 Fed. Census of Wilkes Co. records her as
Elvy Eller, aged 25 and the 1870 census as Elvira
Eller, iged 35* It is not clear which McNiel family
she came from but was said to have been her husband1*

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cousin. Their children, the first five recorded in
the i860 and 1870 Fed. Census of Wilkes Co. werer

(1) James Eller , aged 5 in the i860 and lit in the

1870 Fed. Census*

(2) Simeon Eller , aged 3 in the i860 and 12 in the

1870 Fed. Census*

(3) Thomas Eller^, aged 9 in the 1870 Fed, Census*

(U) Ambrose Eller , aged 3 in the 1870 Fed* Census.

(5) Carrie Eller^, aged 10 months in the 1870 Fed*

Census.

(6) Cleveland Eller , d. young, (Family records)

(7) Gaither Eller^, d, young, (Family records)

(8) Rufus Eller^, d. young* (Family records)

(9) Cicero Eller , d. young. (Family records)

(10) Thomas Jefferson Eller^, b. 1837/38 (1850 Fed. Census).
He did not marry. He enlisted as a private in the
1st* N. C. Regiment of the Confederate Arny and was
killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. early
on the morning of 2 May 1863* He was buried where
he fell. He was a bright and promising youth and
his untimely death was mourned deeply by his family
and friends. While in service he wrote a letter
home, part of which, after his death, was probated
as his last Will and Testament. It reads, "And
should I never see you again I will you brother
James, my saddle and trunk with its contents,
Brother Anderson my gun and Jesse my desk, My
other little effects will be collected and equal¬
ly divided among you Jesse, Anderson, Polly and
America. But I humbly hope and pray that I may
survive this War to enjoy the great blessings of
peace once more.

May this reach you and find you both (all) with
the rest of your family’s well, also all my
friends* I regretted very much to hear of the
death of Mrs. Carlton, I am also sorry to hear of
so many deaths among ray acquaintances caused by
Cyphtheria,

I will close by requesting you to let me hear
from you soon and by asking you to remember an

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absent Brother in your prayers."

(signed) T. J. Eller

The letter was not dated or postmarked but pro¬
bably was written late in 1862 or early 1863. Its
writer mentioned only his three brothers and two
sisters who were still living in North Carolina.

His brother David and his sister Nancy were dead and
his brothers Harvey, John and William were in far
off Iowa sending their sons to fight on the side of
his enemy, the Federal Union. This division in the
family disappeared completely at Appomattox after
which war talk oecame taboo and family relationships
resumed. It could not have been different in a
family raised in the religious atmosphere that sur¬
rounded this Simeon Eller family of western North
Carolina.

(11) America Eller^, b. 18L1/L2 (18*$ Fed. Census), d. 1903
In Allegheny Co., N. C. She m. , 9 March 1899,
William R. Whittington, son of Esquire Allen Whit¬
tington and his first wife.

Their children*

(1) Thomas Whittington who resided in Washington,

D. C.

(2) Gaither Whittington’, bom in Wilkes Co., N. C.,

ca. 1867 and emigrated to Wapello Co., Iowa
about 1887. He ■., Ella Phelps and lived and
died on his farm at Far son, Wapello County,
Iowa. She was a dau. of Ancil Phelps and a
grand dau. of Benjamin and Elisabeth (McCall)
Phelps. (See p. 183)

(3) Mora Whittington .

Children of America Eller and her 2nd. husband,
Nathan Weaver*

( it ) Nora Weaver^. She m., B. A. Weaver, son of her
father by his first marriage. They lived at
Darlington, 7a.

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HARVEY ELLER

Eldest son of Simeon Eller, Family XII, p. 177.

FAMILY XIII g .

HARVEY ELLER , (Simeon , John , Peter^, George Michael )
was born, in Wilkes Co., N. C., 2h March 1819; d., at the
home of his daughter Mrs. Delos Davis in Wapello Co., Iowa,

3 Nov. 1906. He married in Wilkes Co., N. C., 2£ Nov, 181*1,
Mary Caroline Vannoy, b., in Wilkes Co., N. C., 18 Feb.

1823; d., at the home of her daughter Mrs. Delos Davis in
Wapello Co., Iowa, 18 Jan. 1901*. She was a daughter of
Jesse^ and Mary (Kilby) Vannoy, (Nathaniel^, John-^, Francis^
John^“). Both lie buried in the old section of Competine
Cemetery located one half mile east of Farson, Wapello Co.,
Iowa. (See Vannoy Family herein.)

The North Carolina farm of Harvey and Mary Caroline
(Vannoy) Eller was located in the valley below the south
slope of Rendezvous Mountain situated about six miles north
west of North Wilkesboro. In Revolutionary times this
mountain served for signal fires to arouse the citizenry of
impending danger. Fires from the summit of this great
mountain could be seen as far as Pilot Mountain in Surry Co,
to the peaks of the Blue Ridge in McDowell and were lit to
signal the mountaineers from Virginia to South Carolina and
from Guilford on the east to the settlements in eastern
Tennessee on the west. It was from this mountain that
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland called together his troop of
mountaineers for his famous King’s Mountain Campaign.

Harvey Eller’s grandfather, Rev. George McNiel, was chaplain
of this troop and his wife’s grandfather, Nathaniel Vannoy,
sergeant major. Rendezvous Mountain is now a state park.

Harvey and Mary Caroline (Vannoy) Eller were members
of the New Hope Baptist Church located near their N. C.
farm. Schools were almost non existent requiring them to
teach their children at home as their parents had taught
them. That they were good teachers was proved later by the
careers of all their fifteen children every one of whom at¬
tained full manhood and womanhood, the first death being
that of their son John who met his death by drowning in his

18 th year,

*

Slavery was a most distasteful practice to Mr. and Mrs.

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Eller and they opposed it vigorously. The liouor traffic
also offended their Christian precepts an! they longed to
get away from it to save their children from its influences.
3y their own accounts it was to get away fron these evils
that they decided to rerove to Jefferson County, Iowa where
Mr. Eller* s uncle, David Eller, was then living. It was a
momentous decision for them to make but their courage and
resolution were strong and late in the summer of 1852 they
began preparations. From this point on let the story of
this excellent family be a repeat, with only slight changes
and omissions, of the one which this writer wrote in his
book "James Hook and Virginia Eller" published in 1925 when
members of the family were living and their memories vivid
and clear.

"A strong wagon was fitted with a schooner body over
which was bent six bows of green hickory. Strong
tenting cloth was sewed to the bows, means for folding
the cloth over the ends of the enclosure were provided,
and well planned provisions of all kinds were stored
inside. All surplus belongings were disposed of at
public sale and late in September preparations for the
Journey were concluded.

"Friends and relatives alike tried to dissuade
Virginia^ parents from starting on such a haxardous
Journey. And well they might. The oldest child of
the family was William, barely ten years of age. Jesse
the youngest, was a baby of only seven months. Between
these were Cleveland aged eight, Virginia aged seven,
Nancy aged five, Mary aged four, and Anderson aged two.
The family was going alone, something rather unusual
of long Journeys in those days. There was really no
economic reason for their leaving Wilkesboro. Their
forefathers had lived there amid peace and plenty for
almost a hundred years. All these reasons were
advanced by troubled friends and relatives, but to no
avail.

"None of the neighbors ever expected to see the
family again and as its members piled into the wagon
sad goodbyes were said and farewell songs sung.

Several young men relatives on horseback escorted the
travelers until they passed safely over the range

beyond the M jumping off place " northwest of Wilkesboro,
after which the lonely wagon with its sacred charge
passed on and out of sight below the western horizon.

MThe wagon was drawn by four horses, the father riding
one of the wheelers and driving the lead team. Water
was carried in kegs and the supply was replenished at
each opportunity. All cooking was done over camp-fire.
The first cook stove that any of the family had ever
seen was at Danville, Kentucky* At night the father
and the older children slept in a tent, while the
mother and younger children slept in the wagon. During
the entire trip there was not a night that religious
services were not held. What a blessed sight that
little group must have made as it assembled at night¬
fall along the lone trail to invoke the blessings of
God upon their jcumey.

"The wagon rumbled slowly and safely over the
mountainous region of Tennessee, through Cumberland
Gap into Kentucky, thence to Danville and Louisville,
Kentucky, Vincennes, Indiana, Springfield, Illinois,
Keokuk, Iowa, and over the old Fort Des Moines Road to
Brookville where David Eller, Mr. Eller’s uncle, lived.

•'The journey was full of new and thrilling experiences.
The roads in some places were hardly more than trails;
three great mountain chains had to be crossed. Rivers
and streams had to be forded. Food for the younger
children was scarce and at times the only water obtain¬
able was from streams that were muddy and questionable.
While crossing Tennessee the travelers got their first
glimpse of a railroad train. They came to a crossing
and the father and older sons got out to examine the
tracks, leaving the mother and the smaller children in
the wagon. Almost without warning a train came along
and so frightened the horses that they all but upset
the wagon. The incident struck terror to the heart of
Mrs. Eller, She often told about it in later life.

"As the wagon neared Danville, Kentucky, the faith¬
ful mother, worn by the long and arduous journey, fell
ill. Permanent camp was made in the thought that an
indefinite delay might result. Did Providence have a
hand in locating that camp? It would seem so, because

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next day It was found to be near the home of a former
friend and neighbor named Cones who placed one of his
cabins at the family's disposal. Here the brave
mother obtained a such needed rest. The expense of the
delay, however, added to other expensive misfortunes to
the wagon, and the need for extra food forced them to
sell one of their four horses and to resume and com¬
plete the Journey with only three.

"The Ohio, Wabash and Mississippi Rivers were pro¬
vided with steam ferries which enabled the travelers
to cross without mishap. Not so, however, with the
White River in Indiana. This river was crossed by an
old row ferry which all but capslxed with its load in
midstream. The listing of the ferry caused the horses
to become frightened and for a moment it seemed inevit¬
able that the wagon, team and all, would be thrown
into the water. By carefully unhitching and shifting
the horses so as better to distribute the load, the
ferry was balanced and a crisis overcome.

"The old Fort Des Moines Road westward from Keokuk
guided the family to the David Eller homestead which
was located on what was later known as the old Marlon
Tracey Farm, two and one-half miles southeast of Brook-
ville in Jefferson County, Iowa. The family arrived
there the latter part of November in the year 19*52,
and well that it did not arrive later, because winter
began early that year and heaped untold hardships upon
later arrivals who had no warm homes to move into.

"The David Eller homestead was a fine pioneer farm
of more than two hindred acres, part prairie and part
timber, that sloped gradually to the southeastward
toward Cedar Creek. It had a bearing orchard on it
from trees that had been brought by David from his
earlier home in Wayne County, Indiana. The building
where David lived was a double log house set in the
shape of an "L" with a lean-to to the east in the "L".
One of these log structures was about 20 x 2li and the
other 16 x 18 and both were weather-boarded on the out¬
side with oak and basswood lumber sawed at the old saw
mill nearby from timber grown on David's holdings.

There was a large fire-place in each house fully

equipped with cranes and stone ovens for cooking*

David welcomed his nephew and family and shared his
house with them for three months until they could ar¬
range a lease on some property nearby. It was in this
vicinity that two more children, Israel Curtis and
Martha Clementine Eller, were bom,

MIn 18^6 the family moved to the Agnes Davis Farm
north of Ottumwa, near Dalonega, where they lived until
the latter part of December of that same year. They
then moved to an eighty acre farm, which they had
recently purchased, located in the extreme northern end
of Wapello County just south of Martinsburg, Iowa. The
following, slightly edited, extract from a letter of
Israel Curtis Eller dated h July 1923 recounts in vivid
language some experiences of the family in this new
home, (See Appendix for full text of this letter.)

?We first moved into the old Chilacotha School-
house where we lived while dad finished the house in
which we were to live. He built it of newly sawed
green oak lumber with split oak shingles and barely
got it enclosed when we moved in about Christmas
time. That was the coldest winter ever experienced
in that country and we almost froze to death. Try
as he would, he and Will and Cleve could not keep us
in fuel, which they had to haul from Skunk River
Timber several miles away. We had no heating stove,
but had a big, wide consuming fire-place built from
Skunk River limestone. The weather boarding of the
house did not fit snugly and as it began to season
and warp one could see daylight through it, and the
roof at many places allowed snow to drift in. I
remember this distinctly as brother Jesse, sister
Martha and myself had no shoes and when we got cold
mother would put us on a feather bed where we would
play until we got warm.

fThe winter of 1857-8 was nearly as bad as the
former one. Father had a nice little start in
cattle when the deflation in everything came in
1857 and father owed a store bill in Dalonega. The
creditor part the account into judgment and had an
execution issued and the constable came and drove

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off every one of our cattle except one, our old nilk
cow, which was exempt or he would have taken her.

I remember it well. Father was at the timber for
wood; Will and Cleve were working and the others
were in school, and I remember how mother cried.

And why would she not cry, when you think of her
surroundings with a family of ten children, none yet
grown and all suffering from cold and hanger? Hone
but the stoutest heart could have endured it. It
makes me cry now when I recall it. 9

"Four more children - John, Thomas, Jacob, and Edson
C. Eller were bom at this home, the former of whom
was Just a baby dirirr the trying winter of l857-£.
Other children of Harvey Eller tell of the terrible
experiences of these early years. Food was scarce,
warm clothing almoe t unobtainable, and the family sub¬
sisted for the most part on pumpkin molasses and com
bread. In another letter written by Israel Curtis
Eller dated February 12th, 1923, he again describes
the house that his father built on this new land.

'This house was built in the fall of 1056 when
Fremont was running for President; that is how I am
helped to rvs«btr the date.

9Tou must know that those days were before rail¬
roads, and all pine luat/er had to be freighted from
Mississippi River points, and as all the settlers
were poor, the buildings were of logs or sawed boards
sawed by local saw mills run by water power.

’The house built was a frame structure having three
roosts. One room was about 20 x 2L with a partition
running through it from north to south which cut off
a room about 7 x 20. In the latter room were three
beds, two of them end on end and the other setting
crosswise, which left Just enough room for us to get
in and to bed. There were nails driven in the walls
and partitions all along for us to hang our clothes
on. The larger room contained one bed and a trundle
bed underneath it, so with some of us sleeping at
the foot we had room enough.

’The house was built of green oak and hickory;

frames, joists, rafters, plates and studs hewn out of
logs and weather boarding sawed to about 1x6 inches
It fitted pretty tight at first, but soon warped and
was quite open,

*The third room was a shed, or lean-to, about 10 x
2h which served as a kitchen and dining room, and
here mother had her loom where she wove homespun wool
and flax sufficient to clothe us and make our bedding
She not only did the weaving, but would also card,
spin, and dye the material and then cut and make it
up, so our clothing if not very fine was good and
comfortable. After doing all this, mother always had
a meal for a traveler or a neighbor, and she was a
wonderful cook as everyone who fed on her bounty
could testify,

fThe house was without plaster and we had no stove
except an old broken backed cook stove, one of the
first made and the first mother ever used. Most of
the cooking was done over the fire-place. Oir suf¬
ferings during the first winters were great, but we
were all healthy and strong and soon forgot.1

"In late 186U Harvey Eller sold this farm to Elisha
Godfrey and one November 2l*th of the same year pur¬
chased from James Grant Hook of Vinton Co., Ohio, later
Wapello Co., Iowa, the unimproved quarter section of
land which became the permanent Eller home in Wapello
County. It was located one and one -half miles west of
the village of Maryville and to-day includes the entire
town of Far son which was founded in 1898 in a field
immediately back of the Eller house and barnyard.

What a pity that this new town was not christened Eller
or EllertonI It is a sad commentary on the friends
and relatives of the Eller family in that community
that they permitted another and much uglier name to be
fastened upon it,

"While building a house upon this new land the Eller
family lived on the Mcllroy Farm also called the
Goldsby Place, The new house was finished in the fall
of 186£ and was occupied in December of that year,
"Israel Curtis Eller in his letter of February 12,

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1923, from which other extracts have alrea<ty been taken,
writes as follows of his parents* home after they sold
their former home to Elisha Godfrey: (See Appendix)

•We had to give possession at once, or as soon as
the com was husked. Father rented the eighty acre
tract adjoining the Mary Baker Farm on the south,
afterwards known as the Mcllroy Far*, and we moved
there in November l86!i and lived there a year, mean¬
time breaking out 1*0 acres on the Farson place and
building a log house, a log bam, a frame smoke
house, and digging a well. Both house and bam
father bought of Mr* Lazure who lived about two
miles northwest of old Abington, Iowa. In the spring
of 1865 father sold the best horse he had for 8250.00
and with the money purchased three yoke of cattle.
While he and brother Jesse moved the log house and
bam from the Lazure place, dug the well, built the
smoke house, etc., brother Anderson and I plowed the
ground on the Mcllroy place, sowed the spring wheat
and oats, and got ready for com planting. This was
all done with the cattle. Anderson plowed with the
heavier cattle and I did all the harrowing and drag¬
ging with the lighter cattle. Then we all planted
the corn and changed about on cultivating it. You
will understand that at this time there was not a
two horse cultivator in that country, so plowed
the com with single shovel cultivators drawn by one
horse. My sisters often hoed the crops. Father and
Jesse then took the cattle and broke liO acres of
prairie on the Farson Farm. They rode the two year
old colts down to the far*, took their dinners with
them and plowed all day with the cattle, then turned
the latter out to graze over night. Next morning
they would drive them into a corral, yoke them and
resume work. (His oldest brothers were away to war.)

*The home on the Farson Farm was a story and a
half log house x with a shed porch to the east
which was open. There was Just one room downstairs
and one roo* upstairs. It was quite primitive. The
upstairs was not plastered, but there was room
enough for six beds which with one bed downstairs

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where our parents slept, there was room enough* The
house was heated by the cook stove with a little
common coal stove added in the winter season*

’The upstairs was reached by a little ladder in
the southwest corner made of two fence boards with
cleats nailed on, on which the treads rested, and
there was a trap door at the top which, on account
of the cold, we kept closed as we went back and forth
in the winter season* We continued to occupy this
house until the summer of 1875 when we built the big
square frame house which is still standing. We built
that house the spring before Brother John, who haul¬
ed all the lumber therefor, was drowned*

’Sister Virginia married James Hook in this log
house in 1867. We were then, as I have always felt,
the most happy and contented family in the whole
countryside* ’

"It was in the old log house on the Farson Farm that
the last two children of Harvey and Mary Caroline
Vannoy Eller were born. Maggie was bom in 1866 and
Otis R. was born in 1870. It is remarkable to note
that every child of this large family of fifteen lived
to adult manhood and womanhood and honored their
Christian parents by doing well in their chosen walks
of life. The first death to sadden their fireside
came on June 15> 1875 when John Quincy Eller, a
promising lad of eighteen, was drowned in Competine
Creek* With some other boys he had gDne swimming when
the stream was swollen by recent rains. He was caught
in the swift current and drowned before assistance
could reach him." (See letter on page 1*23. )

Mr. and Mrs. Eller sold their Farson farm in later life
and removed to Blair, Nebraska where their son Israel Curtis
Eller lived. Here they remained until 1895 when they re¬
turned to Iowa and lived in the village of Hedrick until
failing health forced them to live alternately with their
daughters Mrs. George W. Dickens and Mrs. DeLos Davis* They
were exemplary Christian characters devoted throughout their
lives to the Baptist Church. All of their children followed

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the examples set by their parents, remained faithful to
their parent* s church faith and did well in life, some at¬
taining distinction in the church and the law.

During his years in Iowa Mr. Eller was chosen to serve
on school and township committees including several years
tenure as township assessor, an office requiring tact and
good Judgment in its performance. He was a pillar of the
local Baptist Church and filled all of the offices that was
in its power to give. It was his practice to start and end
the day with prayer and his grace at table remains a fixed
thing in the minds of his descendants who were favored in
their youth in hearing it said.

The children of Harvey and Mary Caroline ( V annoy ) Eller

were i

(i)

William Hamilton Eller^, (Harvey , Simeon4, John\
Peter?, George Michael^), b., 29 Oct. 18^2, in Wilkes
Co., N, C.; d., 22 Dec. 1922, at the honr of his dau.,
Mrs. Paul G. Welch, in Greensboro, N. C. He married,
10 Nov. 1866, at Bloomfield, Iowa, Harriet (Hattie) A.
Tracy, b. 13 March 1810 in Ohio; \, 20 Dec. 1921 in
Greensboro, N. C. She was a daughter of Dr* Jonathan
Tracy who emigrated from Ohio to Wapello Co., Iowa in
1052. Dr. Tracy returned to Ohio where he died in
lBMe

William Hamilton Eller was only ten years of age
when his parents removed by covered wagon to Jeffer¬
son Co., I<*#a. Fortunately this county in Iowa was
one of the first to interest itsolf in the education
of pioneer children. (See Iowa Journal of History
and Politics, Issue of April 1925*) The Fairfield
Female Seminary was organised in 1818 and Fairfield
University in 1851. William Hamilton Eller worked
hard at home under the tutelage of his father who
recognized his son's latent abilities and placed him
under the tutelage of the Rev, Andrew Axllne who was
operating a small acadeiy in Fairfield. In i860 Mr.
Axllne became the head of the struggling University
which young William Eller entered. He was a preco¬
cious lad and by great devotion to his studies laid
the foundation for his later career as a lawyer,

Baptist Minister and teacher* In 1862 he entered
the military service in Co, D., 19 Iowa Infantry*
Later he served to the end of the war as 1st*
sergeant in Co. I of the U5th Iowa Infantry. In
1867 he entered the Crozier Theological Seminary at
Chester, Pa, and was awarded the Doctor of Divinity
degree in the first graduating class, (1870), having
done four years work in three. For some years after
his graduation he was a Baptist Minister, serving
his first parish in Ohio, (1870-1873) and his second
in Beatrice, Gage Co., Nebraska, (1873-1875)* IXiring
this latter period he studied law, was admitted to
the Nebraska Bar and in 1876 settled in Blair,
Washington Co., Nebraska as pastor of the Baptist
Church and as a practicing attorney at law. In the
latter profession he was joined in 1880 by his
younger brother Israel Curtis Eller who read law
with him and was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in
February 1883. In some of the cases in which they
were engaged they worked with William Jennings Bryan
who, at the time, was a young practicing attorney in
Lincoln, Nebraska. William Eller was twice honored
by being chosen Justice of the Superior Court*

Judge Eller was an implacable eneiry of intoxicating
liquors and in 1890 joined some others in taking
over the rights of the Keeley Institute in the state
of North Carolina. This institute was and still is
an agency engaged in the careing for and treating of
alcholics. This new effort took Judge Eller back to
his native state. In 1896 he sold his interests in
the Institute and re-entered the Baptist ministry,
continuing in this field until his death.

His efforts and accomplishments in this work for
God and man was outstanding. His special efforts
were spent in organizing new, and reviving old
Baptist churches. He attended as pastor in several
of the churches in the Piedmont district and was
always ready and willing, without remuneration of any
kind, to come to the aid of struggling parishes and
assist in their revival. His ability to speak and
read the Greek and Hebrew languages was recognized

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in high places. The small, pocket site Bible which
he always had with him was printed in Greek and to¬
day is a cherished possession of one of his children.

In 1929 a beautiful Eller Memorial Church was
built to his memory, in Greensboro, N. C. by the
Baptist churches that he served so faithfully and
well.

Children: y

(1) Ida Eller , b., 1867/60; d., 1073/Ij. She lies

buried in the cemetery at Clay Center, Nebraska.

(2) Annie Eller^, b. 1070 in Chester, Pa.; d. young

and was burled in her grandfather Tracy's

burial lot in Otway, Ohio.

(3) JulU A. Eller7, b. 20 Sept. 1P72; d., 15 March

1097; m. Joseph S. Moore, a realtor and lumoer

merchant in Greensboro, N. C.

Chlldron: Q

(1) Eleanor Moore , b., U Aug. 1093; d., 26
March 1952; m., 21 May 1910, Frank S.
Smith. Family lived in Le on la, New
Jersey. They had a family of two sons
and one daughter as follows:

(1) Frank Steed SmithQ, b., 17 May 1920,
at Savannah, Georgia; m., 26 Oct.
19li6, Eliiabeth Katheryn Bird of
Rome, N. T. She graduated B. A.
from Eaerson College, Boston, Mass.
He attended Virginia Military
Institute and, in l^l»3, graduated
in Electrical Engineering from
M.I.T. He served in the Army in
World War II and saw duty in the
Philippines and Japan. He was a
First Lieutenant in the Officers'
Reserve Corps. Presently is
employed by General Electric Co.
(Import Projects) and lives in
daldwinvllle, Mew York. Children,
(1) Paul Me fell Smith10, b., It

Sept. 19li7; (2) Christopher Arthur
Smith10, b., 18 Aug. 1950; (3)
Rebecca Bird Smith10, b., 22 July
1952,

(2) Julianne Smith , b. , 26 Aug, 1921;

m. , 7 July 19U5, Lieut. William
Mackenzie Webb of Leonia, N, J.,
a graduate of Columbia Univ. She
graduated from Mt, Holyoke College,
joined the WAVES, United States
Naval reserves, as Ensign and was
on duty two years in Washington,

D, C, Her husband served 18 months
as Lieut, in the Navy on the U.S.S.
Darter which operated in the South¬
west Pacific. Children, (1) Steven
Benjamin Webb10, b., 2h Oct. 19b 7 ;
(2) Jqyce Mackenzie Webb10, b., 2h
Oct. 19ii8; (3) Nancy Webb1 , b.,

27 Oct. 1951. Q

(3) Benjamin McNiel Smith, b., 23 April

1926 at Leonia, N. J.; d. 8 June
19h6 in a motor car accident on
his way home from finishing his
junior year at M.T.T. He was a
brilliant student of charm and
great promise.

(2) Fauline Moore8, b., 17 Feb. 1895; d., 2

April 1903

*

(li) William Cary Eller , b., I87li; d., at age of 3
and buried in the cemetery at Blair, Nebraska
three days after the family* s removal there.

(5) Caroline (Carrie) Eller7, b. , 28 Sept. 1877 in
Blair, Nebr. ; m., 9 May 1899, Paul G. Welch,
b., 17 Dec. 1871; d., 12 Aug. 193b* He was a
merchant dealing principally in motor car
accessories in Greensboro, N. C. She lives
presently with her daughter Carolyn Louise
Hackworth in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Children:

8

(1) Harriet Ruth Welch , b., 25 Jan. 1905; d.,

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10, Oct. 1906. fl

(2) Carolyn Louise Welch , b., L Jar. 1915; m.,

1 June 19li0, William Hackvarth. Family
lives presently at 7031 College Ave.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. They had no
children.

(6) Elisabeth (Bessie) Eller , b., 30 Jan. i860; *.,

3 June 1903, Whit R. Stone, b., 6 Feb. 1881;
d., 29 June 1933* He was engaged in the print¬
ing business in Greensboro, N. C. She is now
living with her daughter, Elisabeth, in Peters-
txirg, Virginia.

Children! ^

(1) Troy Hamilton Stone , b., 13 June 1905; d.

immediately.

(2) Elisabeth Eller Stone , b. 15 July 1909;

m., 16 July 1932, George Ruffin Dupuy,
b., 15 Dec. 1903. He graduated from
Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., B.S.
192li. He presently is Vice President of
the Bank of Virginia and manager of its
branch at Petersburg, Virginia. She
graduated from Randolph-Hacon College,
Lynchburg, Va., A. B. in 1929 and while
attending there was awarded the Phi
Beta Kappa key for scholarship. George
Ruffin riipuy is descended from Bartholonew
Dupuy, bom in 1650, a Huguenot and an
officer in the king's guard whose wife
was Countess Susanne La vl lion. He cane
to Virginia in 1700 and settled in the
Parish of King William on the Janes
River. The father and mother of George
Ruffin Dupuy were George Ruffin Dupuy
Sr., b. 18 Dec. 1«6 2; d., L Hay 1921 and
Annie Elisaboth Fowle Satterthwaite of
Washington, D. C., a niece of Daniel G.
Fowle, late Governor of North Carolina;
b. 17 April 1871| d., U Aug. 19L0. They
were married 12 Oct. 1898. Tne children

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0

of Elizabeth Eller Stone and her husband
George Ruffin Dupuy are, (1) Elizabeth
Stone Dupuy?, b., 3 Aug. 19b0; (2) George
Ruffin Dupuy III*3, b., 7 Dec. 19b6.

(2) Barnett Cleveland Eller^. (Harvey^, Simeon^, John^,

Peter^, George Michael ), b. 29 Feb. I8bb in Wilkes
Co., N. C.; d. 30 March 1929 at David City, Nebraska.

He nu, lb Dec. 1869, Annie Troxel, b. 22 Jan. 1891;
d. 6 Nov. 1936. She was a dau. of Daniel and
Susanna (McCall) Troxel of Wapello Co., Iowa and a
granddaughter of Heniy and Leetha Troxel, both born
in Kentucky. Barnett Cleveland Eller served in the
Union Ariny, in the war between the states, as 1st.
sergeant in Co. K, 9th Iowa Cavalry. In 1873 he re¬
moved from Wapello Co., Iowa to Clay County, Nebr.
where he homesteaded a farm near Harvard. In 1892 he
moved to Harvard, Nebraska where he was in the bank¬
ing business until 1900 when he bought out the
general store of Manning and Morgan in David City,
Butler Co., Nebraska later changing the name to Eller
and Son. He was a member of the Baptist Church and
a citizen of high standing in the places where he
lived.

The following article in the newspaper of David
City, Nebr* in 192b tells of the early settlement of
Cleveland Eller in Clay Co., Nebr.

CLEVELAND ELLER, EARLY SETTLER:

KILLED 28 RATTLESNAKES FIRST SUMMER
One day this week while visiting with Mr, Cleve¬
land Eller we found that he was one of the earli¬
est settlers of Nebraska and as a result has had
mar^y experiences which we of later birth know
nothing about.

Mr. Eller went to the Civil War when he was 19
years of age and was a soldier for three years.

Later he was married and in 1872 he and Mrs. Eller
with their baby boy left Ottumwa, Iowa, and came to
Nebraska. They settled in Clay county where they
took a homestead. "Yes," said Mr. Eller, "there
were Indians, coyotes, rattlesnakes and prairie dogs.

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Vo trees, vtus t a east amount of prairie. Never¬
theless we improved our homestead In order to keep
it for our future hoe* .

"The first year we were visited with a large
fire which destroyed all of our improvements we
had worked so hard to get. The next year was the
grasshopper year and although the grasshoppers
stayed tut ten days everything was destroyed by
them."

Mary of Mr. and Mrs. Eller's neighbors went
back to their old homes in Missouri and Iowa but
the Ellers stayed on. In two or three years their
neighbors had returned and by then Mr. and Mrs.
Eller had got their start and were able to help
their neighbors. He told of fighting prairie
fires mmiy timrs for there were several of them
every year.

The first sumerr he was in Nebraska he killed
28 rattlesnakes alone, besides those that were
killed by the others. Three children were bom to
Mr. and Mrs. Eller while living there, and after
living on the homestead for 19 years they moved to
Harvard and entered into the banking business own¬
ing the First National Bark of Harvard.

They lived in Harvard for nine years and that
was during the hard times of the 'Ws. In 1900
they sold the bank, and the children having
graduated from high school came to David City and
bought the drug and grocery store of Chas Manning
and Dave Morgan, which was located In the building
where Trotter's variety store now Is. In 1915
they moved to their present location.

Cleveland Eller is close to 80 years of age and
to look at him one would hardly believe him to
have suffered the hardships and privations of the
early days. He and Mrs. Eller have celebrated
their golden wedding, to use his own words "Tes
we have been married over 100 years, she has been
married 50 and I have been married 50."

They have four children, Hugh Eller, of Council
Bluffs, lews, Mrs. E. J. Sherbum, of Cambridge,

Nebraska, Mrs. Julian Buckley and Mr. Troy Eller,
of David City.”

Children? y

(1) Hugh B. Eller , b. 10 Nov. 1871; m. 9 June 1903,
Jessie Laura Morgan, b. 12 Jan. 1880; d. Oct.
19U3 • Occupation, Railway Mail Service. He
lived for many years in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
After he retired he removed to Palo Alto,
Calif, where he still (1956) lives.

Children:

(1) Gerald D. Eller , b. lii March 190L; m. , h

Sept. 1929, Lois Spafford. Two children
are, (1) Jean Louise Eller^, b. 3 July
1930; (2) Hugh LeRoy Eller^, b. 10 Aug.
1931* Gerald D. Eller Joined the mili¬
tary services in World War II, on 19
Sept. 19ii2 and was released 12 March
19b 3 to enter defense work. He was as¬
signed to the 85th Ordinance, Infantry.
He now lives in Salinas, California.

(2) Dorris Eller^, b. 5 Dec. 1906; d. 9 Aug.

1908.

(3) Helen Ruth Eller', b. 6 Feb. 1910; m.,

July 19 5U, Harry E. Evans, aeronautical
engineer. Prior to her marriage she was
a member of the staff of Stanford Univ*
at Palo Alto, Calif. Family lives in
Palo Alto, Calif.

Lulu Eller^, b. 11 Nov. 187U; m., 13 Nov. 1897,
Ernest J. Sherburne who d, July 19U8. Family
lives in Cambridge, Furnas Co., Nebraska.

Children, one daughter. g
(1) Leo Marguerite Sherburne , b. 15 Nov. 1898.
She m. Donald Shoemaker and lived in
Los Angeles, Col. He died in 1952. She
lives with her mother in Cambridge,
Nebraska.

(3) Marguerite Eller , b. 3 April 1881; d. 5 Sept.

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1923; m., 3 April 1907, Julien 9. Buckley, b.

9 Jar.. 1876. Family lived in David City,
Nebraska where he was engaged in the grain
tasiness.

a*)

Children t

(1) J. Dale ikickley , b. 6 March 1906; d. 1

Sept. 1933* p

(2) Kenneth E. Buckley , b. 3 Aug. 1911. Ke

served in World War II and now lives in
San Francisco.

(3) Maurice U Buckley , b. 21 May 1913; 22

Feb. 19lil, Verrlce tackle Galloway, b.

6 May 1913. He graduated in dentistry
at the University of Lower California
and is now a prominent dentist in Los
Angeles where family resides. Children,
(1) Roger Buckley**, b. 27 July 19LL; (2)
Raymond Buckleyc, b. 19L8.

(It) Luc 11. K. Buckley", b. ?5 Mot. 1915|

22 Jan. 1936, Karl Frost. Children, (1)
Mary Jo Frost9, b. Nov. 1936, now a
student at Univ. of Nebraska; (2) Douglas
Young Frost, b. 6 Sept. 1939. Fasiily
lives in Los ^Angelas , California.

Troy Cleveland Eller , b. 9 June 1862; d., 26
June 1936; li Jan. 1905, Eva Morgan, b. 10
Aug. 1867. She ■., 10 Sept. 1951, as her 2nd.
husband, William Russell. Family lived at
David City, Nebraska where he was engaged in
the merchandising business. He served, 1927-
26, as president of the Nebraska Retailers
Association.

Chlldreni ^

(1) Eugene Eller , b. 10 Aug. 1910; m., 18

Sept. 1933, Vera Trammel. He is a

merchant in Oklahoma City, Ok la. He

served in the Navy in World War II.

0

Children, on. .on, Richard Ellar , b. 1
March 1950.

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g

(2) Louise Eller , b. 2h Jan. 1911; m., 3 Aug.

19 3h, David 0. Coolidge, a civil engineer,
at McCook, Nebr. Children, one daughter,
Sandra Ann Coolidge9, b. July 19^6.

(3) Virginia Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^, John^, Peter^,

George Michael^) was bom, 18 Oct. I8li£, on the farm
of her parents located in the fertile valley that
borders Rendevous Mountain on the south, in Wilkes
Co., N. C. She died, 30 Oct. 1897, on the farm owned
by herself and her husband located in Highland Town¬
ship of Wapello County, Iowa, two and one half miles
south east of Hedrick, Keokuk Co., Iowa, She married,
21 Nov, 1867, James Hook of Wapello Co., Iowa, b, 30
Sept. 1839; d. 30 June 1905# He was a son of Jaraes^
and Mary (Lyle) Hook, (Stephen^, James^, John^, James^,
Thomas-^). (See Hook Family VIII, page 329 herein.)

Virginia Eller was barely seven years of age when
her parents decided to move from North Carolina to
the state of Iowa, She was one of seven children to
make this journey, the eldest being her brother
William not ouite ten and the youngest her brother
Jesse, aged seven months* It was a long, hard trip
through the wilderness, all better described in Eller
Family XIII, page 188 herein.

Being the eldest daughter Virginia, called Jennie
by family and friends, had work to do. But she was
a bright child and a diligent pupil in school and
with the help of her parents managed to prepare her¬
self for Fairfield University, better known at that
time as Axline’s Academy, located in Fairfield,
Jefferson County, Iowa. This school, organized in
18U8 as the Fairfield Female Seminary, was re-organ¬
ized in 18 9U as Fairfield University, In i860 the
Rev. Andrew Axline, a pioneer clergyman and teacher
who had been operating a small academy of his own in
Fairfield, was chosen president of the University.
Virginia and her sister Nancy and her brother William
attended the academy and University, William going on
to the Crozier Theological Seminary at Chester, Penna.
in 1867.

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Virginia returned to her parental hone and applied
for a teacher* s position in the public schools. For
two years prior to her marriage in l£67 she taught
the lor^ winter terns in the neighborhood schools
and assisted her mother 'Hiring the crop growing
months. Her first school was in the North Union
District of Highland Township of Wapello County
located one and three quarters miles south of the
town of Hedrick. This school, known locally as "Blue
Jeans" because the boys wore jeans trousers and
Jackets, was in the district where Virginia*s future
husband* s family lived. William Hook, her future
husband's brother, was its second teacher. She
became its fifth and her future husband its seventh
teacher. The schoolhouse was used as a Sunday school
in those times with her future his band serving ae
teacher both before mid aft^r their marriage. In
1920 the school was consolidated with the schools
in the near by town of Hedrick.

Old letters, some quoted in Eller family XIII, and
in the appendix of this book, give more information
about Virginia Eller and will not be repeated here.
One of her pupils writing of her In later years said,
"She was a very kind teacher and we all loved her.

The Ellers were intellectual, loved school and male,
and made the mas t of their opportunities. "

Virginia bore her his band eleven children, eight
of whom grew to full manhood and womanhood. Despite
the burden of miairv this large family she found
time to assist her neighbors In tines of sickness
and need, take part in neighborhood activities and
help her children with their school work. During the
busy seasons on the farm she engaged outside help but
so far as her children could see did the cooking her¬
self and managed the doing of all chores. Her older
children proclaimed her a manager of t he first order
and gave her equal if not more than equal credit for
her husband's success at farming and atockraising.

She died of pneumonia at the early age of fifty two
and li«s buried beside her tusband in the Hook family

plot in the Martinsburg Cemetery located in Wapello
County, Iowa, one and one half miles south of Martins¬
burg, Keokuk County, Iowa.

The children of Virginia Eller and James Hook are
shown in Hook Family VII, page 329 herein*

6,5 U 3 2

Nancy Eller , (Harvey , Simeon , John , Peter , George
Michael^), b, 29 May 181*7 in Wilkes Co., N. C#; d.,

1* Jan. 1892 in Clay Co., Nebraska as a result of
burns caused by an explosion of gasoline in her home
"while cleaning her daughter* s dresses with white
satin yokes”. She married, 3 Nov. 1878, Frazier
Troxel, b. 2l* Feb. 181*9 in Wapello Co., Iowa and d.,

19 Feb. 1908, on his farm near Clay Center, Clay Co.,
Nebraska. Both lie buried in the cemetery at Clay
Center, Nebraska. He was a son of Daniel and
Susannah (McCall) Troxel and a grandson of Hemy and
Leetha (Anderson) Troxel, the latter two born in
Kentucky and a grandson, also, of James C. and
Elizabeth Jane (Northrop) McCall. In 1871* she
visited her brothers in Clay Co., Nebraska and while
there filed on a 1*0 acre homestead and stayed to
prove up on it. She owned this land at the time of
her death.

The children of Nancy Eller and her husband, Frazier
Troxel were: _

(1) Susie Caroline Troxel , b. 12 Nov. 1879; d. 10

May 1909. She married 27 Aug* 1902 as his

first wife, Jesse G. Jessup, b. 7 Dec. 1878

in Indiana. He married, 2nd., 1 Oct. 1911,

as his second wife, his first wife*s cousin,

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Mabel Ruth Eller , dau. of Jacob H. and Bertha
Adelaide (Athey) Eller shown ahead on page
231 . There were no children by the second
marriage. Family lives in retirement in
Los Angeles, California.

The children of Susie Caroline Troxel and her
husband, Jesse G, Jessup were;

(1) Dorothy Miriam Jessup®, b. 1 Aug. 1903;

20*

d. 27 April 19U9; 1st., 2 April 1926,

Royal Campbell Hendricks; ». 2nd., 17
March 1933* Nelson Giles Pringle. Family
lives in North Hollywood, Calif. Child¬
ren by first marriage; (1) Robert Charles
Hendricks0, b. li June 1927; , 20 June

191*8, Elizabeth Ann Lam and have a son,
Richard Charles Hendricks*", b. 5 Aug.
199). Children by second marriage; (2)
James Nelson Pringle', b. 9 Oct. 1938;
d. 25 Oct. 199a; (3) Peter Michael
Pringle0, b. 28 Sept. 19l*l.

(2) Carol Blanch Jessup , b. 16 Feb. 1906; ■.,

6 Aug. 19?7, Frederick Ussher Lawrence.
Family lives in San Diego, Calif. Child¬
ren, (1) Barbara Louise Lawrence**, b. 3
Nov. 1928; 12 June 191*8, Janes P.

Peters and have children (a) Laurel Lee
Peters*0, b. 6 Jan. 1951; (b) Barbara
Lucinda Peters*0, b. 19 Sept. 1952; (c)
Marcia Leslie Peters*0, b. 2 Feb. 199*;
(2) Carol Jean Lawrence , b. 13 *eb.

1931; 22 Oct. 1950, Richard F. Brad¬

ford and have children, (a) Carol Sus¬
anna Bradford*0, b. 1 Aug. 199*; (b)
Elisabeth Jo. Bradford*0, b. 23 Feb.

1956.

(2) Leetha Grace Troael2 3 * * * 7, b. 30 Nov. 1881; d., un¬

married, 13 Oct. 1925, of a heart attack in
Washington, D. C. where she was alloyed by the
Journal of the National Education Association.
She lies burled in the cemetery at Clay Center,
Nebraska,

(3) Daniel Curtis Troxel , b. , 11* July 1883, near

Clay Center, Clay County, Nebr.; m., 16 June
1912, in Lincoln, Nebraska, Martha Loretta

Britt, b., ?i* Feb, 1888, near Seward, Nebr,

She was a daughter of Joseph B. and Loretta
(Nelson) Britt. Daniel Curtis Troxel attended

the Clay Center High School then entered

Cotner College in Lincoln, Nebraska from which
he graduated with the degree of Bachellor of
Arts in 1912* He served with the Y.M,C,A, in
Camp Stanley at San Antonio, Texas during
World War I years, 1917-18. He did graduate
work in the University of Nebraska in the
spring of 1919. In the fall of 1919 he entered
the Divinity School of Yale University and
graduated with a degree of Bachellor of Divin¬
ity in 1922, He was ordained as a Minister of
the Christian Church at Lincoln, Nebr* 9 June
1912 and held pastorates, thereafter, at
Beaver Crossing, Falls City and Tecumseh, all
in Nebraska, After receiving his degree from
Yale in 1922 he accepted a call to be Minister
of the Church of Hiram College at Hiram, Ohio,
He held this position until 1925 when he enter¬
ed the Divinity School of the University of
Chicago where he remained until 1 Feb, 1927
when he joined the teaching staff of the
College of Bible at Lexington, Kentucky as
Professor of the New Testament, a position he
held continuously until his retirement in
June of 1956* The College of the Bible is an
accredited seminary of the Christian Church,

In 1952 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of
Divinity by Transylvania University, Lexington,
Kentucky,

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The children of Daniel Curtis Troxel and his
wife, Martha Loretta Britt, were:

(1) Leetha Loretta Troxel®, b., 21 April 1913,

at Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, She lives,
unmarried, at San Diego, Calif, where she
is a rehabilitation counselor for the
Tuberculosis and Health Association of
that city,

(2) Marjorie Maxine Troxel , b, 12 April 1916

at Falls City, Nebraska; d,, 9 April
19li2, in Kansas City, Missouri; m., 5
Oct. 19li0, Robert Keith Maclntire, b.

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2 5 Aug. 191ii. They had no children*

(3) Daniel Curtis Troxel Jr* , b. , 6 Dec* 1^17,
at San Antonio, Texas; d., 26 Oct* 1$18.
(M Bessie Eller Troxel^, b. 23 *eb. 1888; d. U Jan.
1892. She died with her mother as a result of
a gasoline explosion In their hone* She was
burled In the cemetery at Clay Center, Nebr.

Mary Octavo Eller^, (Harvey*’, Simeon^, John^, Peter^,
George Michael*), b«, 10 Dec. 1818, In ellkes Co.,

N. C*j d., 3 April 1881, at Hampton, Franklin Co*,
Iowa* She married, ?L Oct. 1868, Joslah Phelps, t*,
In Gallia Co*, Ohio, 27 Jan* l8i*3; d*, at Royalton,
Klnn., 21 Dec. 1916* He was a son and sixth child
of benjamin Phelps, b* In Gallia Co., Ohio, 12 April
1811; d., In Wapello Co*, Icma, 5 Jan. 1875, and his
wife, Jane McCall, b., In Gallia Co., Ohio, 28 May
1° 1 1 ; l*j in 'Wapello Co., Iowa, 27 Dec* 1871*

Benjamin and Jane (McCall) Phelps llw»d on a farm
near Qalllpolie, Gallia Co., Ohio until the spring
of 1852 when they emigrated with their large family
to Marysville, Wapello Co., Iowa where both now lie
burled*

Joslah Phelps enlisted 10 March 1862, from
Wapello Co., Iowa In Company E, 17th Iowa Infantry
and fought with his regiment at Corinth, Vicksburg,
Missouri Ridge and In the campaign In and about
Atlanta. On 13 Oct. 186b, together with most of his
regiment, h» was captured at Tifton, Georgia and
Imprisoned at Andersonvllle where he spent the
winter and all but starved to death* He was freed
10 April 1865 and discharged from the service 9 June
1865 after which he returned to his Wapello Co*,

Iowa home, married, and, on April 27, 1869, removed
to Ham^on, Franklin County, Iowa where he organised
the firm of Phelps Brothers, grocers, a business
which he operated with success for many years*

The children of Mary Octavo Eller and her husband,
Joslah Phelps we ret

(1) Jennie Leona Phelps , b., 2 5 July 1869, at

Hampton, Iowa; d., 9 July 1901; m. 2 July 1900,
Lewis Pettis of Des Moines, Iowa. After her
mother’s death, in 1881, and until her marriage
she lived with her Eller grandparents and other
relatives in Wapello Co., Iowa. She had no
children.

(2) Arthur Denton Phelps^, b. 2 (13) Aug. 1871, at

Hampton, Iowa; d., 18 June 1952, at Barton,
North Dakota, He married, 1 April 1900, Mae
Fronk, b. 16 April 1876, at Hampton, Iowa. He
was a successful Veterinary surgeon. His
children were: g

(1) Lola (Lulu) Vernice Phelps , b., 13 Aug,

1903, at Thornton, Cerro Gordo Co,, Iowa,
She m. Ole Sande, b. 13 June 1900, They
had no children, g

(2) Donald Denton Phelps , b. 25 May 1910; m.,

2li Dec. 1929, Ruth Solby. They had two
children, (1) Wayne Donovan Phelps^, b.,
30 Jan. 1931, at Barton, N. D.; (2) Mary
Lou Phelps g

(3) Martha Fay Phelps , b. 10 Aug. 1912; m.,

5 Oct. 1935, Mahlon Anderson. One child

o

was Leroy Gale Anderson , b., 3 April
1936, at Barton, N, D,

(li) Ruth Phelps®, b. 10 April 1918; m., 3 Nov.
1939, Louis Hanson.

(3) Wilbur James Phelps^, b. 21 (25) March, 1873, at

Hampton, Iowa; d., 11 May 193h, in California;
m., 26 Nov. 1895, Alice Hill of Belmond, Iowa.

Their children were:

(1) Wilbur Phelps , b., Dec. 1896, at Thornton,

Iowa; m, Burrell French, No further
record found.

(2) Lela Mae Phelps®, b., 19 Jan. 1897, at

Thornton, Iowa; m., 17 Sept, 1936, George
Weiss of New York,

(3) Almond Phelps®, b. 1898, at Trumbull,

Nebraska. He married and family lived
in Freville, California. Their children

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were

(U)

,, (1) Donald Phelps : (2) Lois Hay
Phelps^; (3) Lela Phelps ; (L) Raymond
Phelp*0.

(L) Jos 1 ah Phelps , bom at Grand Is land ,
Nebraska; d. in infancy,

3enja«in Bjtler Phelps^, b. 2 (21) March 1875,
at Hampton, Iowa; d., Jar. 191*2 • He married,
1st., Nellie Rick and 2nd., 7 Feb. 1921,
Ellen 3ahl. He served In the Spanish American
War In Co. K, 1st. Reg. of S. D. Infantry and
was wounded, 5 Feo. 1899, In the Philippine
Islands, Children by 1st. marriage were:

(1) Alice Mary Phelps , b., 15 July 1901, in

Iowa.

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(2) Hilton Phelps , b. 19 Sept. 1903.

(5) Jessie Phelps^, twin with Bessie next below, b. ,
30 March 1877, at Hampton, Iowa. She a., 17
March 1^97, Oscar Wlckman of Galesburg, Ill.
who die'*, 17 Nov. In California. She

may have married again. Children of Jesse
Phelps' and her husband. Oscar Wlckman, were:
(1) Vera Bessie "lckman , b, 10 May at

Thornton, Iowa; m., 19 Oct. 1915, Morris
Smell, b., IS Jan. 1°86, at Chicago, XU.
One child was (1) Betty Josephine Small9,
b., 7 Sept. 1917, at Los Angeles, Calif.
Frtd LmVem Wlckman \ b. , 1L July 1901, at

(2)

(3)

(L)

Thornton, Iowa; d., 12 April 1937, at
Los Angelas, California; m. Ef fie .iladys
Carter, b., 16 Feb, 1900, at Acute, Texas.

Eva lone Wlckman*, b., 20 Feb. 1903, at
Thornton, Iowa; m., Joseph Franklin
Gray, b., 5 June 1096 in Kansas. Two
children wert, (1) Settle Cora Oray , b.,

6 April 1920, at Portland, Oregon; (2)
Elaine Eva GrgyQ, b., 8 June 1926, at
Portland, Oregon.

Raymond Phelps Wlckman , b., 1!* July 1905,
at Los Angeles, Calif.; m., 19 Nov. 1
at Windsor, Ontsrlo, Evelyn Moloche, b. ,

9 July 1905, at Sandwich, Ontario. Two

children were, (1) Raymond Phelps Wick-
man^, Jr., b., 27 Aug* 1930, at Detroit,
Michigan; (2) Janet May Wickman^, b., 18
Aug. 1932, at Los Angeles, California,
Bessie Phelps^, twin with Jessie next above, b*
30 March 1877, at Hampton, Iowa; m,, 27 Oct,
1897, at Clear Lake, Iowa, Frank T. Johnson,
b,, 29 Jan. 1872, in Illinois,

Their children were:

(1) Harry Wilbur Johnson , b., 3 July 1898, in
Thornton, Iowa, He married and had a
daughter (1) Shirley Johnson^, b. 1 Aug,

1922, Q

(2) Grace 3# Johnson b. , 18 May 1902, at
Thornton, Iowa; m., May 1933, Frank
Meisel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

L, D, Phelps*^, b., 15 July 1879, at Hampton,

Iowa. The L. D. initials in his name meant
nothing else and throughout his life he went
by the name of Elldee. He married and had two
sons. Family lived in Calais, Alberta, Canada,
Mary Phelps^, twin with Martha next below, b, 27
March 1881, at Hampton, Iowa; d,, 1 Sept, 1927,
at Inverness, Montana; m., h June 1899, Ohmar
Hill, b., 12 Aug. 1876, at Newton, Iowa,

Their children are:

(1) Verda May Hill , b., 20 Dec. 1900, at

Belmond, Iowa; m., 11 Dec. 1919* Gilbert
Jeffrey Yount,

(2) Josiah Wesley Hill

Belmond, Iowa,

(3) Merlin Raymond Hill

Belmond, Iowa,

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8

8

b, 13 Nov, 1903, at
b. 10 July 1905, at
b., 25 July 1907, at

8

(i;) Jennie Leona Hill
Barton, N, D*

(5) Cecil Dennis HilT', b., 9 Aug. 1909, at

Barton, N# D, ; d. Oct. 1909#

(6) Robert Lewis Hill^, b, U Nov. 1912, at

(7)

Sage, Montana; d. 8 March 1928.

Anna Maria Hill , b, lLi Oct. 191 h, at Sage,

Mont ana §

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(8) waiter Harold Hill , b. , 6 March 1919, at

Sage, Montana. Q

(9) Arthur Fulton Hill , b., 30 Jan. 1922, at

Havre, Montana,

(10) Abaon Lloyd Hill*, o. 18 feb. 1925, at
Havre. Montana.

(9) Martha Phelps', twin with Mary next above, b. ,

27 March 1881, at Happton, Iowa. She ■•, 1st.,
29 Nov. 1899, John Lewis, who died 26 July
190li. She m. , 2nd. , in 1908, Wllllaj* Lewis.

In 1938 the fa*diy was living at Mason City,

Iowa.

Children oy first narrlage with John Lewis were

(1) Wilford Earl Lewis , b., 10 Aug. 1900, at

Thornton, Iowa.

(2) Violet Frances Lewis , b., 1L March 1902,

at Thornton, Iowa.

(3) Lester John Lewls°, b. 26 March 190b, at

Thornton, Iowa.

Children by second Marriage with Willi a*

Lewis weret

(L) Weston Lewis , twin with Wave rrxt below,
b. 20 :*C. 1908.

(5) Wavs Lewis , twin with weston, next above,

(6)

(7)

(8)
(9)

b. 20 Dsc, 1908.

8

Ivans lie Lucille Lewis , b. 16 Oct. 1913*
Leonard hslos Lewis , twin with Lyal, next
below, b., 25 Lee. 1916, at Thornton,
Iowa; d, soon after birth,
lyal DsForest Lewis , twin with Leonard,
next above, b. 25 Dec. 1916; d. soon
after birth .

Richard Lewis , b. 19 May 1918 at Thornton,

Iowa.

(10) M^rone Arlene Lewis , b. 23 Jan. 1920, at
Thornton, I<**a.

Jaws Anderson Blltr , (Harvey , Slrv»on‘, John\

Peter?, George Michael1), b. 30 April 1850 in Wilkes
Co., N. C.j d. , 16 Keb. 1932, at Glenwood, Iowa. He
Married, ?L Dec. 1875, at Edgar, Nebraska, Cora

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Belle Mizener, b., 20 Nov, i860 at Girard, Macoupin
Co,, Illinois; d. 9 Sept, 19 lb at Glenwood, Iowa,

For twenty seven years after their marriage the
family lived at Edgar, Nebraska, In 1902 the family
removed to a farm near Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa
where both died and lie buried.

Children:

(1) Harvey Newton Eller , b., 7 Nov, 1876, in Edgar,

Clay Co., Nebr.; d, 17 Aug. 1951* He m. , 9
Oct. 1900, Libbie Young, b, 1 Feb. 1877*

Family lived in Omaha, Nebraska where he was
a U, S, postal clerk until his retirement in
December 19l*l«

One child:

(1) Geraldine Louise Eller , b, 2 Aug. 1901 at
Glenwood, Iowa, She m., 9 May 1920,
Walter Lorain Anderson. Family lived at
Onaha, Nebraska,

(2) Tyndal Ord Eller^, b, 28 Aug. 1887 at Edgar,

Clay Co., Nebr.; d. 13 Oct. 19l*3# He m., 26
Oct, 1910, Wilhelmena Grunderson, b, 27 Sept,
1889; d. 13 Oct. 19l*3« He was a farmer in
Mills County, Iowa, near Glenwood,

(7) Jesse Franklin Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon1, John^, Peter^,
George Michael^), b, 12 Feb. 1892 in Wilkes Co,,

N. C,; d, 26 Dec. 1932 at his home in Red Bluff,
Tehama Co,, California* He married 1st., k Dec,

1877, Lavina Troxel, b. 23 Jan. 181*7; d. 21 Nov,

1891. She was a dan, of Daniel and Susannah (McCall)
Troxel and a granddaughter of Henry and Leetha
Troxel, the latter two born in Kentucky, He married
2nd., 28 Dec. 1892, Elizabeth Estes, b. 11 Feb, 1871;
d, 1* July 19U3* The family lived in Red Bluff,

Calif, where he was engaged in the real estate
business.

Children by first marriage with Lavina Troxel:

(1) Anna V. Eller^, b, ll* Feb, 1883; m., h Nov,

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1920, Clause C, Rogers; July 1938. Widow
lives at Long Beach, Calif • Issue, (1) Mar¬
garet Ann Rogers0, b. 18 June 1922; 18 June

19ltlj , George E. Bourne of Newark, N, Y. and
hare children, (a) Robert George Bourne0, b.

30 June 19li7; (2) Catherine Ann Bourns0, b. 10
May 19ii9. Family lives at Glendale, Calif,

(2) Charles J. Eller7, t. ?6 July 1885; *., U March

19Hi, Hilda Lanhan who d. 1 June 1915. Fmtily
lived at Harvard, Nebr. Children, (1) Gerald
Ell.r®, finar, l. <3 Kay 1915; (?) Donald E 11, i\
twin with Gerald, b. 9 Kay 1915« Donald Eller,
finer, served with 199 th bomber group of the
73 wing the sans being the first group of planes
to bomb Tokyo In World War II.

Children of second marriage with Elisabeth Estest

(3) 3*orgl» Ell»r7, b. ?0 Hot. 1»<J3; lot., ?0

Aug, 19?7, Ralph J* Parsons, deceased. She m*
2nd*, Herbert Sting, divorced. She lives at
Banning, Calif* Issue, orr son by 1st, mar¬
riage, (1) Calvin Estes Pareons°, b, 15 May
1915; ■,, IL April 1938, Jeannette Gentry and
have t^ree children namely, (a) Harlan Leroy
Oentry0; ( 2) Colby Hi an Gentry0; (3) Janice
Gale Gentry0, Family lives at Concord, Calif,

(la ) Estes H, Eller7, b, 6 April 1895; m. , 30 March
1^ 19 f Viola Burrlll, Family resides at San-
Mateo, Calif, Children, (1) Rea Estes Eller ,
b. 11 Jan. 192U He le with the U, S, Maritime
Service, unmarried; (2) Robert Laird Eller^,
b* 23 May 19?3; 22 Sept. 1951, Jeanne Row,

Th^jr live at Madera, Calif, and have one child,
(a) Byron Douglas Eller0. b, 29 April 195b;

(3) Edward Burrlll Eller®, a mechanic, b, 2L
June 1925, unmarried; (l) Jack Frank Eller*0,
a mechanic, b, 23 May 1928, unmarried; (5)

Ronald Leroy Eller®, b, 21 Aug, 1931; m, 7
June 1952, Delores Bradford and have on* child,
(1) Becky lynn Eller0, b, 1 Aug, 1953* Ha Is
a sgt, in the U, S. Air Force,

(5) Frank M. Eller7, b. lii Nov. 1897; m. , 15 May 19?1,

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Mildred E. Gearhart, b. 29 March 1898. He is
a merchant at Oakland, Calif. Children, (1)
Harold Frank Eller®, b, 9 March 1922; m,, ll*

June 19l*7, Alice Leuning, b. 10 March 1927.
Family lives at San Lorenzo, Calif, and have
children, (a) Christopher Harold Eller?, b. 19
May 19 1*9; (b) Bruce Frank Eller9, b, 21 Sept,
1990; (c) Susan Lorraine EUerQ, b. U* Jan*

1995; (2) Joan Louise Eller®, b. 9 Aug. 1926;
m. , 20 June 191*8, Conrad P. Young, b. 12 Apr,
1926, a dental surgeon at Sacramento, Calif,

They have children as follows, (a) Laurence
Perry Young9, b. 9 Dec. 19 1*9; (b) Karen Louise
Young9, b. 18 Dec. 1991; (c) Cynthia Jane Young?,
b. 8 March 1991*; (d) Zale Ann Young?, b. 31 May
1955; (3) Thelma Jean Eller8, b. 9 Feb. 1929;
m. 1st., 17 Dec. 191*8, Richard H. Hart, b., 22
March 1928; divorced 1999; m., 2nd,, 21 Oct,
1996, Edward Charles Putnam, b. 22 Mar, 1919*
Family resides at Albany, Oregon. Children,
all by 1st. marriage, (a) Gary Lynn Hart?, b,

18 Dec. 1950; (b) Linda Sue Hart?, b. 23 June
1953,

(6) Leroy Eller^, b. 25 June 1900; m., 15 Nov, 1936,
Ruth Paul, b. 13 Sept. 1910. Family resides
at Red Bluff, Calif. Children, one son, (1)
Russell Leroy Eller®, b. 10 March 191*5*

(8) Israel Curtis Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^, John^, Peter^,
George Michael^), b. 17 Dec. 1853 in Jefferson Co.,
Iowa; d. 1 Dec. 19l*l*, in Blair, Nebraska, He m. , 3
Nov. 1886, Ellen Elizabeth Kemp, b., 9 Feb. 1861, in
East Trey, Wisconsin; d., li* June 1911*, in Blair,

Nebr. Mr. Eller removed from his heme in Wapello
Co., Iowa to Blair, Washington Co., Nebr, in 1880
where his brother William Eller then lived. He
studied law under his brother for three years and in
1883 was admitted to the Nebraska bar. He quickly
made a place for himself in his community and was
chosen clerk of the District Court, He served in
this capacity for 8 years. He was elected again to
this position in 1908 and in 1910. In the latter

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year he was appointed Judge of the County Court, a
position he held until he retired from active work.
During this long period of court duty he found tine
to represent his district in the Nebraska legislature
and served his church and community in many ways.

Mr. Eller’s life as described in the obituary
published in the Blair Enterprise was one "of activi¬
ty and usefulness - one filled with honor to himself,
and his friends will long point to his record as an
example well worthy of emulation." His letters to
this writer and others telling of his early life on
the prairies of Iowa have historical value. Sore of
then are shown In the appendix of this book.

Children!

(1) William Curtis Eller , b. 6 March 1600; d. 27

Dec. 1900.

(2) Mary Louise Eller , b., 26 Aug. 1093* at Blair,

Nebr.; m., 10 Jan. 1916, Harry L. Morris, b.,

1 June 1090, at Woodvllle, Mississippi. Family
lives in Blair, Nebr. where he Is a manufac¬
turer and presently city Utilities Co^lssloner.
Children, one daughter.

(1) Margaret Elolee Mcrris , b., 13 March 1917,
at Blair, Nebr. | s. , 1 June 1911, at
Decorah, Iowa, Carleton Angelo Speratl,
b., 1 Sept* 1910, at Fergus Falls, Minn.
Family lives In allmlngton, Del. where
he Is a Hesearch Chemist with the E. I.
DuPont dsNamours Co. Children, (1)

Charles Robert Speratl0, b., 22 Sept.

1911, at Arlington, N. J. ; (2) William
Eller Speratl0, b., 21 Mo v. 1919, at
Jersey City, N. J.; (3) Solvelg Ann
Speratl0, b., 9 Dec. 19 52, at Wilmington,
Delaware.

(3) Frances Pauline Eller^, b., ?1 Jan. 1097, at

Blair, Nebraska. She m. 1915, Ralph John
Roush, b. 10 March 1097 in Dallas Co., Iowa.
Family lives in Des Moines, Iowa where he owns
and manages the Roush Impleswmt Company.

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Children:

(1) Elizabeth Minnie Roush , b. 1 April 1916,

at Des Moines, Iowa; m# 1st., 21 July-
1935, James Lyle of Des Moines, Iowa; m#
2nd 4, 18 Jan. I<?[i7, Leonard L. Bateman.

By first marriage one son, Ralph James
Lyle9, b. 25 Aug. 1938. He is a student
at the University of Iowa under a Nile
K inneck Scholarship and was one of two
Des Moines, Iowa high school pupils to
pass the National Merit tests in 1956.

By second marriage, one daughter, Ellen
Elizabeth Bateman9, b. 22 Oct. 19^7 at
Des Moines, Iowa: d. 18 May 19li9*

(2) Frances Jane Rcush®, b., 18 June 1917, at

Des Moines, Iowa; m., 19 May 1938, Erwin
William Kuntz of Kingfisher, Oklahoma
where family now lives. Two children
are, (1) Dennis William Kuntz9, b. 23
Oct. 19^2; (2) Marianne Kuntz^, b. 22
March 19b 5*

(3) Dorothy Marguerite Roush®, b. 30 June 1919

at Fort Dodge, Iowa; m. 1st., Richard P.
Holmes; m. 2nd., 15 Sept. 19^6, Mac Neal
McCulloch Jr. of Seattle, Washington.

She served 3i years as a "Wave” during
World War II, three years at the 13th Naval
District Office in Seattle, Wash, where
she rose to the position of Chief Store¬
keeper in the Disbursing Department.

The family now lives at Wenatchee,
Washington. Children, (1) Mac Neal
McCulloch III9, b., 2 Oct. 19li9, in
Seattle, Washington; (2) Marli Jane
McCulloch9, b., 20 Sept. 195h, in
Wenatchee, Wash.; (3) Timothy Eller
McCulloch^, b., 12 May 1956, in
Wenatchee, Washington.

(Ii) William Samel Roush®, b, 11 Nov. 1925 at
Des Moines, Iowa. He spent two years
at the Naval V-12 school at Ames, Iowa

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and commissioned an Ensign, March 1^1*6.

He received the degree of Bachellor of
Aeronautical Engineering at Iowa State
College, Ames, Iowa, June l^ii6. He car¬
ried, 2h June 19^0, Eulonda Stanley of
Blythesdale, Missouri, Children, (1)
Willi m Smuel Boush Jr.Q, b. 11 March
193a; (?) Stanley Kent Boush , b. ?L
July 1996. Family lives at Des Moines,
Iowa where he is an engineer at the
Solar Aircraft Cor: -ary.

(h) Infant unnamed daughter , b. Dec. la98; d., aged

? days.

(9) Martha Clementine Eller^. (Harvey'*, Simeon^, John\
Peter , George Michael* 1$ Sept. 1 0 , in

Jefferson County, Iowa; d., 1 Dec. lc39» in Marshall*
town, Iowa. She married, 30 March 1875» ** hia
second wife, George W. Dlckins1, b., 16 Sept. I6la3»
in Wyandot Co., Ohio; d., ?? June 1917, at his home
in Farson, Iowa. He was a prominent cl t lien of
Wapello County, Iowa, son of Thomas Martin Dlckins*
and his wife Elisabeth Staley and grandson of Jnres
Dlckins* and his wife Mary Haskins. George W.

Dlckins married 1st., 2 July 1*614, Elisabeth M.
Hawthorne and had four children, namely (1) Wilbur
T. Dlckins who died young; (?) Anthony Dlckins who
died young; (3) Mary D. Dlckins, b. 10 July 1*69; d.
2? Oct. 1922; ■• , ?8 Sept. 18*7 Oscar Elsworth
Dickey, b. ?1 Jar. lft6L; d. 7^ June 1^3®* They had
3 sons; (M Hiram Bessie Dlckins, b. 7 Oct. 1871; d.
27 Sept. 92; m. 9 Jan. lfl9 Jf innle Ulrey, b. 16
Jan. 1677. They had three daughters and 1 son.

George W. Dlckins served in the 1st. Iowa Cavalry
in the Union Ar*y in the war between the states. He
represented his district for two terms as a republi¬
can In the Iowa Legislature and held many local
offices in his township and county. His farm of 760
acres, reduced to 360 acres at the time of his death
was one of the flnsst in the county. His bam had a
capacity for housing 200 head of stock. Mr. and Mrs.

Dickins were active members of the Baptist Church
and acknowledged leaders in the community where they
lived*

Children of Martha Clementine Eller^ and her husband,
George W. Dickins were:

(1) Scott Martin Dickins*^, b, 1 Aug* 1876; d. h Oct*
190U ; m. 22 March 1899, Mabel C. Cook, b. 9
July 1876; d* 2 Aug. 1911* He was a farmer at
Farson, Iowa with high promise of succeeding
to the prominent position of his father when
untimely death overtook him.

7

Children of Scott Martin Dickins and his wife,
Mabel C, Cook:

(1) George Earl Dickins^, b. 7 Feb. 1900; m*,

3 April 1921, Hortense M, Cowan, b. 22
Feb. 1900. Family lives at Dallas,

Texas. Their three children are;

(1) Patricia Anne Dickins^, b. 2 Apr*

1922; m., Oct. 19li2, Charles
Nicholas Drake and have a dan*

Susan Anne Drake, b, 1 Sept, 19^3*

(2) Nancy Caroline Dickins^, b. 2 Sept*

1926; m., 3 May 19l*7, L. C. Jones,
b. 23 June 1926. Family lives at
Dallas, Texas. Their children are
William David Jones, b* 22 May
19ii9 and Deborah Anne Jones, b* 19
May 1952.

(3) George Curtis Dickins , b. 22 Jan,

1929; m., 22 Feb. 1952, Letha Jean
Cooper, b. 31 May 1933* Family
lives at Dallas, Texas,

(2) Lloyd Martin Dickins^, b. 22 March 1902;

m, Emily Hiller, b. 10 Aug. 1905# Family
lives at Upland, Calif. Their three
children are;

(1) Penelope Dickins^, b. 22 July 192U ;
m. Michael Francis Kerwick, Jr,,
b. 20 Oct. 1918 and have a son

Michael Francis Kerwick, III, b,

16 Feb, 19h9 and a dau,, Mary
Monteal Kerwick, b. 8 Aug. 19li7.

(2) Richard Martin Dickins°, b, 9 Dec,

1928; r.. Rue Foreland, b, 3 March
1930 and have one son Scott Martin
Dlcklns, b, 2ii Dec. 1990. Family
lives at Arcadia, California,

(3) T ho was Lloyd Dlcklns0, b, 16 July

1936.

(2) Rella May Dickins^, b, 9 Feb, 1879; d, 3 March
1996 at Marshalltown, Iowa; m. 3 Nov, 1897,
Clyde A. Dickey of Hedrick, Iowa, b, 2h May
1876; d. 23 Apr. 19L9. He was a farwer and
merchant at Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa,

Children of He 11a May Dlcklns' and her hus¬
band, Clyde A, Dickey:

(1) Martha Lucile Dickey , b. 5 Nov. 1809; w.

26 March 1927, Daniel P. Ward. Children,
a dau, Martha Lucile Ward, b. 23 Oct,
19|j0, and an adopted ton rawed Charles
Lewis Ward, Family lives on a far*, at
Marshalltown, Imta .

(2) Mary Margaret 'Hckey , b. 8 May 1001; a,

12 Sept, 1Q23, Olenn A. Messerschwltt,
b, 13 Aug. 1900. Their four children

4re| 9

(1) Wayne I . Messerschmi tt , b. 2h Dec.

1928; killed In an automobile
accident 1 la June 19L8.

(2) Wallace E. MesserschrittC , b. 29

Sept. 1032. Lives on his own
farr. at Farson, Iowa.

(3) F*a Marie Messerschwitt° , b. 19

March 193L.

(L) Margaret Glenna Messerschmitt^, b.

10 June 1936; d. 23 Otc. 9 by
being struck by a truck on a street
in Dea Moines, Iowa; w, 19 June
1999, Don Robert Coffman,

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(3) Arthur C. Dickey , b, 7 July 1903; d. 6
Aug, 1955 of a heart attack; m. Eliza¬
beth Palmer, He was a Public Accountant
at Ottumwa, Iowa, Issue, one daughter;
(1) Mary Elizabeth Dickey^, b. 23 Aug,
1937; m. and had a daughter,

(1) Katherine Elizabeth,

(1*) Fern M, Dickey^, b. 17 July 1905; d. 7
March 1932; m, ll* Dec, 1929, James D,
France. No children,

(9) Florence M, Dickey®, b. 28 Aug, 1907; m.,
31 March 1935, Frank L, Bowles, b, 27
March 1901*. Family lives at Lohrville,
Iowa, Had one daughter,

(1) Rella Frances Bowles^, b, 25 Jan,
1936; d, 12 Jan, 191*7.

(6) Leslie M, Dickey®, b, 22 July 1908; m,

Phyllis Hartig, No issue,

(7) Duane Eugene Dickey®, b, 1* Feb, 1912; m.

1st,, Helen May Williams, b, 18 Sept,
1912; d, 22 June 19U2 ; ra. 2nd,, 1 Sept,
1950, Barbara Held, Duane Eugene Dickey
enlisted in the Special Engineering
Division of the Manhattan Engineers, He
was inducted at Des Moines, Iowa, 19 May
191*3 and given his basic training at
Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, He was
assigned to Oak Ridge, Tennessee where
he was stationed until he was discharged
11* May 191*6, He is now a practicing
architect in the city of Chicago, Ill,

Children:

(1) Mary Frances Dickey , an adopted

daughter, b. 30 March 19 1*2, She
lives with her adopted aunt,
Florence and uncle, Frank L, Bowles
(3) Katherine Elizabeth Dickins^, b. May 30, 1881;
m., Dec, 27, 1909, Clyde B, Baldwin, b, 10
June i860 at Bridgeport, Ill,; d, 22 Aug, 1951*
He was a son of Thomas J, and Elizabeth

(Dennison) Baldwin and a grandson of William
and Abagail (Kenny) Baldwin# She attended
Iowa State College. Family first lived on the
parental Dickins hone farm at Farson, Iowa,
later removing to Harrison City, Pennsylvania,
where he operated a fruit farm, and general con¬
tracting business#

Children of Katherine Elltabeth Dickins and
her husband, Clyde B. Baldwin:

(1) Ralph Edward Baldwin0, b# LL Oct# 1906,

at Dts Moines, Iowa; a# Marlel (or
Murlal) Ballard, b# 15 Apr# 1911, dau#
of John Calvin and Belle (Ratliff)
Ballard and grand dau# of 'William T# and
Mol lie (Cook) Ratliff# Ralph Baldwin
and family lives at Houston, Texas where
he is in the contracting business#
Children!

(1) Nancy Jean Baldwin , b# 10 Feb# 1939#

(2) John Cly* Baldwin5, b. 2 Kay 19li6.

(2) Martha Elliabath Baldwin®, b, 5 Jar. 1909j

a# 9 Nov. 1927, William Walter Putney,
b# ?L July 1901# He is a son of William
Harris Putney mid his wife Kary Ann
Baldwin and a grandson of Charles and
Emi (Dick) Baldwin, also a grandson of
Robert and Katherine (Harris) Putney#
William Walter Pitney and family live

near Waterloo, Iowa where he is a farmer
and large land owner#

Children:

(1) Martha Kay Putney , b# 13 Dec. 193b*

(2) Shirley Ann Pu£neyQ, b. 25 Oct. 1937.

(3) Clyde Kyrrel Baldwin , b., at Hedrick,

Iowa, 28 May 19 IL; m., 29 June 19Wi, at
Pittsburgh, Penna#, Bessie Jane Blair,
b# at Plttstxirgh, Penna#, 16 Apr# l^lii#
She la a dmi # of James Blair, Jr., b#
in Dalkleth, Scotland In 1868 and his
wife, Bessie Barr, b# in Cleveland, Ohio

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in 1881, and grand dau. of James Blair,
Sr., b. in Dalkieth, Scotland and his
wife, Jane Taylor, b. in Lingerwood,
Scotland, also grand dau. of Alexander
Barr, b. in Larkhall, Scotland in 1857
and his wife, Ella Brown, b. in Scotland
in 1852.

Clyde Myrrel Baldwin enlisted, 19U2,
in the U. S. Navy’s Seabees as a carpen¬
ter^ mate, first class. Served the first
year in the 7th Construction Battalion in
the New Hebrides and commissioned an
Ensign in the Navy’s Corps of Civil
Engineers, Was transferred to the 20th
Construction Battalion in the Solomon
Islands Campaign. Returned to the U.S.A.
in June 19Uii, and was stationed at the
U. S. Naval Amphibious Training Base at
Fort Pierce, Florida as Public Works
Officer. Was later retired to inactive
duty with rank of Lieutenant j.g.

Family lives in Jeanette, Pennsylvania
where he is a private commercial building
contractor.

8

Children of Clyde Myrrel and Bessie
Jane (Blair) Baldwin, one son.

(1) Robert Blair Baldwin^, b., at

Pittsburgh, Penna., 5 May 1951#

(10) John Quincy Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^, John^, Peter^,

George Michael1), b. 20 Sept. 1857 in Wapello Co.,
Iowa; d. by drowning in Competine Creek in Wapello
County, • Iowa, 15 June 1875* See letter in appendix
of this book concerning his tragic death, p. U23 •

(11) Thomas Arnold Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^, John^, Peter‘d,

George Michael1), b., 21 Sept. 1859, in Wapello Co.,
Iowa; d. 28 March 1937 in Stratton, Hitchcock Co.,
Nebr. He was a farmer, retired at the time of his
death. He married three times, 1st. on 22 Sept. 1881

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to Alice C. Phelps, b. 5 April 1859; d., 30 Sept.
1930, in Hitchcock Co., Nebr. She was a daughter of
John Phelps and a granddaughter of Benjamin and Jane
(McCall) Phelps. He married 2nd., 1* Nov. 1931, Vona
Scott, b. i860; d. 21 Feb. 1933* She was a dau. of
Jesse Scott. He married 3rd., 15 Kay 1935, Mrs.

Mary V. Buffington, b. 16 Feb. 1866; d. 22 Feb. 1037.
There were no children by 2nd. and 3rd. marriages.

Children by 1st. marriage:

(1) ALden R. Siler1, b. 13 Aug. 1882. He m. 1st.,

Frances K. Jones, b. 6 Oct. 1882; d. 2ii Jan.

1009. He m. , 2nd., 25 Dec. 1016, Jennie E.

Wood. No children by 2nd. marriage. He was

a farmer near Culbertson, Nebraska,

Children by 1st. marriage:

(1) Kenneth Harvey Eller , b. 8 July 1907; m.,

8 April 1933, Eunice Karcurt, b. 3 April
1915 at Oberlin, Kansas. Divorced, no
issue. He m. 2nd., ?9 Jen. I9l*0, Iris
Gilbert, b. 21 March 1918 at Brookings,
South Dakota. Family lived at Colby,
Kansas. He enlisted, 21 Sept. 191*2, In
the 518 Heavy Ordinance Co. at Fort
Crook, Omaha, Nebr. sponsored by the J.I.
Case Farm Machinery Co. In Kay 191*3 he
cadred to help form the 221st Ord. Co.
With the latter company he left for over¬
seas duty, 1* Jan. 19l*5, and on 1 Feb.
191*5, landed on Leyte in the Philippine
Islands where he served for the remainder
of the war. He received his honorable
discharge at Fort Logan, Colorado, 22
Oct. 191*5 having attained the rank of
Staff Sergeant,

(2) In Blaine Eller7, b. IfiflJj d. 1BP6.

(3) Ella Phelps Eller , b. 15 Jen. 1885; m., 17 Oct.

1910, Harry P. Owens, b. 18 Dec. 1880; d. 19

June ]Q?9. Family lived at Trenton, Nebr.

Children:

(1) Richard Robert Owens , b. 23 May 1920; m,,

10 March 19U3, in Seattle, Wash,, Marian
Elizabeth Jackson, He enlisted in the
U. S. Navy b Oct. 19bl and after finish¬
ing basic training at the Great Lakes
Training Station, served for 6 years
aboard the U.S,S, St. Mihiel and the
U.S.S. George F, Elliott and at the Naval
Repair Base at San Diego, Calif., also
for a time at Ipyokem, Calif. He was
discharged 29 Sept, 19b7 as a Shipfitter
Second Class, During his service he was
awarded the following medals, (1) Asiatic
Pacific with four stars; (2) American
Area Philippine Liberation with two stars;
(3) American Defense Medal; (4) World War

11 Victory Medal; (5) Good Conduct Medal,
(b) Stella M, Eller?, b, 8 Aug. 1886; m, 1st., 5

Sept. 19C6, Robert R, Owens, b. 8 Sept. 1883.

She m. 2nd., 10 Oct. 1923 > Adam Lee Hartman,
b. b Aug. 1870; d. 2b May 19b8. Family lived
at Stratton, Nebraska.

Children by 1st, marriage with Robert R. Owens.

(1) Delight Lucille Owen®, b. 8 Aug. 1921; m.

1st., 7 Jan. 1937, John William Allen,
b. 7 Aug. 1918. Family lived at
Shenandoah, Iowa. She m. 2nd., 17 Nov,
1995, Reginald L. Morgan. There was one
child by first marriage named (1) Lang-
don Richard Allen^, b. 9 May 19b 1.
Children by 2nd, marriage with Adam Lee Hartman:

(2) Leroy Gene Hartman®, b. 11 May 1925; m,,

31 Aug. 19b6, Alma Sturtz. They have
three children, (1) Jerry Lee Hartman^,
b. 10 July 19b7; (2) Randall Gene Hart-
man^, b. 5 Oct. 1950; (3) Steven Leroy
Hartman^, b. 9 Sept. 1952.

(5) Vernon Thomas Eller?, b., 27 Feb. 1891 at Clay
Center, Nebraska; m., 26 March 1913, at

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Stratton, Nebr., Stella Thomas, b., 10 Nov,

189U at Stratton, Nebr. He owns and operates

a merchandise business at Stratton, Nebraska,

Children:

(1) Dorothy Iucile Eller', b. 17 Jan. 1911* at

Stratton, Nebr.; m, 1 Sept, 19|*5, Everett
Sidney Vaughn Jr., b, , ?5 Feb. 1918 at
Floyd, Floyd Co*, 7a. He is a chemist
employed by the E. I, Dupont Co* in their
plant at Bridgeport, Conn* Hone is in
Stratford, Conn. Children, (1) Everett
Sidney Vaughn IIIQ, b., 11 Oct. 1917, at
Stratford, Conn.; (?) Scott Thomas
Vaughn9, b., 13 June l^Sl, at Stratford,
Conn. 0

(?) Donald Tale Eller , b., 16 Sent. 1918 at
Max, Xndy Co., Near.; m., 2 June 191*0,
Joy Gladys Foster, b., 11 March 19?0.

He was in the Navy during World War II
from Feb* 19l*Ji to 2 3 Feb. 191*6 as Store¬
keeper 2nd, Class and saw service in New
Tuinea and the Philippines. Children,

(1) Glenda Nadine Lller^, b., IS June
191*1, at Stratton, Neor.; (?) Donna Jo
Eller9, b., ?1* March 19Ui, at Stratton,
Nebr.; (3) J*ne Loilse Eller9, b,, 2 Nov.
19li9 at Trenton, Nebr.; (L) Thomas Dale
Eller*, died at birth; ( 5) Ju^jr Kay
Eller9, b, ?0 Aug. 19f>? at Trenton, Nebr.

(3) Wade Burdette Eller*, b. , ?0 Oct. 1920, at
Stratton, Nebr.; m. , 1 Dec. 1939, at
McCook, Nebr., Mildred Leona Updike, b.,

5 March 1922, He served in the Navy
during World War II free* 12 Jan. 19Jj5 to
Hi April 19li6 as Seaman 1st. Class, first
in the Aviation Metalcraft School at
Norman, Oklahoma and later in Carrier
Aircraft, Unit 6 at Alameda, Calif.
Children, (1) Gerald Lynn Eller, b., 2U
May 19|*0, at Stratton, Nebr.; (2) Douglas

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Wade Eller , b., 7 Oct. 19i*l, at Strat¬
ton, Nebraska.

(1*) Lynn Eugene Eller®, b., 1 Jan. 1927, at
Stratton, Nebr. He served in the Army
during World War II, from 10 May 191*5 to
11 Oct. 191*6, as Technician l*th Grade
Infantry and in the Adjutant General* s
office, Pentagon Building, Washington,

D. C. He is presently living in Wies¬
baden, Germany where he is assistant pur¬
chasing agent for men*s ware, civilian
service, for the U. S. Air Force. He is
not married.

(6) Cleveland Harrison Eller^, b., 31 March 1893; m.,

1 Sept. 1920, Ruth I. Jesse, b., 26 Aug. 1895#

Family lives at Stratton, Nebraska.

Children: ^

(1) Gerald Vaughn Eller , b. 20 Sept. 1922; m.

2 July 19l*l*, Jacquline Bechmann, b. 5
Sept. 1925. He served for a time in the
Sea Bees Branch of the service in World
War II. They have one son (1) Gerald
Stephen Eller^, b. 2 March 19l*6.

(2) Bethel Gene Eller^, b. 12 Aug. 1925; m. ,

26 Dec. 1951, Gustave Stolte, b. 11*

Sept. 1911.

(7) John Harvey Eller^, b. , 5 Sept. 1895; m. , 23

Nov. 1919, Lulu E. Sharp, b., 11 March 1899#

Family lives at Stratton, Nebraska.

Children:

(1) Jack Leroy Eller®, b., 21 Nov. 1921* at

Stratton, Nebraska; m., 1st., 27 April
191*2, Lela Mae Boyce, divorced in 19l*7*

He m. 2nd., 21 Nov. 1950, Violet Loretta
Hamblin of Omaha, Nebraska. He was in¬
ducted into the U. S. Army 10 May 19l*3
and served until honorably discharged,

11 Jan. 191*6. He was in the 718 Rail¬
road Battalion and served in both the

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European and Pacific theatres of war.

In Europe he saw service in England,
Holland, Belgium, France and Italy and
In the Pacific, China, India and Bum*.

He presently is employed by Swift and
Company at Denver, Colorado.

(12) Jacob H. Eller^, (Harvey , Simeon", John\ Peter?,
leorge Michael^), o. 27 Aug. 1661 In eapelio Co.,

Iowa; d., 13 Sept. 1955 in Clay Center, Clay County,
Nebr. He m. , let., 1 July 1666, bertha Adelald
Athey, b. 16 Feo. 1667) d., 25 Jan. 19 1L. He n«,

2nd., 27 Kgy 1921i, Krs. -ranees u. Pay, (bom Francis
Qillette) b. 9 Nov. 1672. There were no children by
his 2nd. nrrlage. The middle initial of his rwse was
an invention of his own when he was a lad in school.
His seat mate suggested that it be th** letter "N"
but after uselng that letter for a time he decided he
liked "H" better and so it was from that time on.

He explained all this in a letter to this writer
dated ?7 Jar. I0C3.

Jacob H. Eller/ moved frar. »anello County, Iowa to
Clay County, Nebr. in 1I“S3. He was accompanied by
his younger brother .-dson Christy Eller. Both were
single nen. They travelled with one wagon and two
team* of horses. Their route was via -remont, Mia
and Das Koines in Iowa to the Missouri River at Blair
but finding no bridge there drove twelve miles up the
river to a ferry propelled by horsepower end steered
by s paddle in the deft harvla of a river skipper.

They reached the Nebraska side in the pitch dark of
early night with nothing but a trail ahead to guide
them. Instinctl vely the horses kept to the trail
and at length brought them to a camp site tired and
Hungry. The only habitation nsar by was a farm
house. The Indy answering th* door refused to give
them supper but did agree to cook a breakfast for
the the* on the morrow. It turned out to be a good
one, at a cost of only twenty five cents each and
sustaired them for a full day's journey that landed
them in mid afternoon in Blair, Nebr. where their

elder brothers, William Hamilton and Israel Curtis,
both attorneys at law, the latter, also, Deputy
Sheriff of the county, lived* They remained here a
week trying to rent a farm, and failing, drove on
westward to Clay County, Nebr. where two other elder
brothers, Jesse and Cleveland Eller, lived. Here
Jacob rented the C. S. Detweiler farm in Lone Tree
Township just south of Clay Center. A year later,
Cot. 1 88U , he and Mr. Detweiler organized a hardware
and farm implement store and started a one team
freight service. The railroad which came two years
later, 1886, stopped their freighting business and
Jacob sold his interest in the store and joined his
brother Jesse in the real estate business. From
1888 to I89U he sold real estate, clerked in a store
and bought grain for the market. In I89U, with his
friend Calvin He as ley, he entered the merchandising
field in Clay Center that was to claim his interest
for the remainder of his life. The business was
first called Heasley and Eller, then when his brother
Cleveland of Harvard, Nebr. bought an interest in
the firm, Mitchell, Heasley and Eller Brothers, then
Eller and Detweiler and finally, about 1922, J. H.
Eller and Co. In I9I18 he sold his interest in the
store to L. E. Detweiler, a nephew of his earlier
partner. The closing of six of the local banks of
Clay County in the early 1930!s almost destroyed the
business but by hard work and frugal management it
pulled through.

The children of Jacob Eller^ and his first wife,
Bertha Adelaide Athey were:

(1) Mary Merle Eller^, b. , 21 March 1889; still

living, 1956; m., 1st. Calvin Rollins, b,, 25
June 1889; d. 23 April 19U6. He was a
merchant at Geneva, Nebr. She m. 2nd., Aug*
1955, as his third wife, Roy Wellington Eller^,
b. 8 Dec. 1887, son of Jesse Franklin Eller^
and his wife, Mary Addie Gray. (See Eller Fam.
XIV herein.) They live at Monrovia, Calif*

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Children of Merle Eller, all by her first

husband, Calvin Rollins: c

(1) bertha Catherine Rollins , b. 17 Aug. 1911;

m. , 11 July 1938, Robert Francis Browne,
b. 9 April 1916. Family lives at 271
Mountain Ave., Berkeley Heights, New
Jersey where he is eastern traffic
manager of Slick Airways, Inc. They
have three children namely, (1) Barbara
Kay Browne, b., ?3 March 1912, at Cuero,
Texas where her father was an Instructor
of Army pilots; (2) Robert Rollins
Browne, b. , In Des Moines, Iowa, 21 Sept.
1919; (3) William Edward Browne, b. 1
Nov. 1990 i r I Imhurst. Illinois.

) Frances ^il^ned Rollins , b. 8 Aug. 1916;

n. , 1st., Hi Sept. 1936, John Edward
Paul, b. 3 Aug. 1913; divorced in 1911.
She m. 2nd., 1 Sept. 1919, Elwood Homan
Rankin. There are no children by either
marriage. Family presently lives on an
estate known as Highland Farm, Bellevue,
Washington, near Seattle where he raises
and trains American saddle horses as a
hobby. He is employed by a firm of
Karine Outfitters and she holds a respon¬
sible position with Funey Johnson Corv
structlon Compary of Seattle.

(3) Calvin 'Vight Rollins*, b., 11 Sept. 1916.
He graduated B.A . (Magnum Cum Laud# ) from
the University of Nebraska in 1911; alao
made Phi Beta Kappa. He then attended
Cornell Univ. for a time and at the out¬
break of World War II Joined the Air
Force and served until 1916. After
leaving the service he became an instruc¬
tor in Suffolk Univ. at Boston, Mass.

In April 1917 he entered Cambridge Univ.
in England on a Rockefeller scholarship
and in Oct. of 19lifl entered Oxford Univ.,
finishing his work there in 1991 with a

Ph.P degree. He then spent a year teach¬
ing at Wesleyan Univ. at Middletown,

Conn* In the summer of 19 £2 he joined
the teaching staff of Melbourne Univ* in
Melbourne, Australia where he remained
until 19 9U when he returned to America
and took a teaching position at Brooklyn
College on Long Island. He is presently
head of the department of philosophy at
Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio. Un¬
married*

(ii) Marjorie Rae Rollins , b. 11 Feb. 1923*

She attended the Univ, of Chicago on a
scholarship won in 19h0 at the Lincoln,
Nebr. High School, She m., 26 Feb. 19h2,
William Nicholas Huffine, b, 20 Aug.

1918. Family lives on a ranch near
Bozeman, Montana. Children, (1) Ann
Huffine, b., 29 July 19b9, at Seattle,
Washington where her father was port
inspector for the U. S. Army; (2) Jane
Huffine, b. 10 Feb. 1990.

(9) Dwight Eller , not a son but a child of
Mildred C. Eller7 who was raised by the
latter* s first cousin, Mary Merle (Rollins)
Eller, Mildred C. Eller was a dau, of
Edson Christy Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^,
John^, Peter^, George Michael^). See
page 2li3 herein.

(2) Mabel Ruth Eller7, b., 29 Oct. 1890; m., 1 Oct*
1911, as his 2nd. wife, Jesse G. Jessup, b.,

7 Dec. 1878 in Indiana, whose first wife was
her cousin Caroline Troxel who died 10 May
1909. She owns and operates a small publishing
business in Los Angeles. She is also a promi¬
nent member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, president
of the Calif. State Sisterhood, 19^9-90, and a
member of its History Committee which published
a 19 volume History of the P.E,0. in Calif,

He was General Manager of a printing and pub-

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business in Los Angeles that specialties in the
publishing of magazines and college and high
school annuals, now retired* They had no child¬
ren of their own but raised the two daughters
that were born to his first wife, namely (1)
Dorothy Kiri am Jessup and (2) Carol Blanch
Jessup, (See Family of Nancy Ellerr and her
husband Frazier Troxel. page 206 herein.)

(3) Florence Athey Eller^, b., IS Oct. 1892 in Cl^
Center, Nebr. j m. Hi Aug. 1917, in Clay Center,
Nebr. , Ralph Ellis Cowan, b., 7 April 1089, in
Tabor, Iowa. He was a realtor in Lincoln,

Nebr. where all children shown below were bom.
Family removed to »lchlta, Kansas where he is
half owner of the United Cement Products Co.
of that city, now retired fr^ai active duty.

Childrens

(1) Robert Diane Cowan , b., 2li Nov. 1919;

6 July 19lJi, Dorothy Martinson. He
received hiis A.B. degree at Friends
Univ. at Wichita, Kansas in 19L2 and hiis
Ph.D in Physics at Joh\n Hopkins Univ. at
Baltimore in 19L6. He is now serving the
Atomic '-rmrpy Cobt.Ibs ion as Technical
Physicist at Los Alamos, New Mexico,
Children, (1) Larry Cowan", b. 6 Aug.
19L6; d., 17 Nov. 19L6; (2) Nancy Jean
Cowan^, b., 29 Feb. 19L0; (3) Charles
Cowan9, b,, 31 Aug. 19||9; ( L ) Gerald
Stanley Cowan°, b.. 20 Aug, 1952; (5)
Marjorie Sue Cowajj , b. , 30 March 1952i«

(2) Richard Eller Cowan , b., 5 Dec. 1922; d,,

16 Dec. 19liii, killed in action in the
vicinity of Krlnkelt, Belgium during th*e
Battle of the EWilge. Prior to entering
the armed forces he spent a year and a
half at Friends College in Wichita,

Kansas and one year at Oberlln College
in Ohio, He was a private first class
in Company M of 23 Reg., 2 Division U.S. A.

His heroic stand on the day preceding
his death was rewarded by the award, post¬
humously, of the Congressional Medal of
Honor "for conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity Involving Risk of Life Above
and Beyond the Call of Duty in Action
with the Eneny near Krinkelter Wald,
Belgium, 17 December 19hh,"

Accompanying this award was the following
citation. "Private Cowan, was a heavy
machine gunner in a section attached
to Company I in the vicinity of Krin¬
kelter Wald, Belgium, 17 December 19Ui
when that company was attacked by a
numerically superior force of German
infantry and tanks. The first six
waves of hostile infantrymen were re¬
pulsed with heavy casualties, but a
seventh drive with tanks killed and
wounded all but three of his section,
leaving Private Cowan to man his gun,
supported by only fifteen to twenty
riflemen of Company I, He maintained
his position, holding off the Germans
until the rest of the shattered force
had set up a new line along a fire
break. Then, unaided, he moved his
machine gun and ammunition to the
second position. At the approach of
a Royal Tiger tank, he held his fire
until about eighty enerry infantrymen
supporting the tank appeared at a
distance of about one hundred and fifty
yards. His first burst killed or wound¬
ed half of these infantrymen. His
position was rocked by an 88 millimeter
shell when the tank opened fire, but
he continued to man his gun, pouring
deadly fire into the Germans when they
again advanced. He was barely missed

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by another shell. Fire fron three
machine guns and Innumerable snail a ms
struck all about him; an eneey rocket
shook him badly but did not drive him
fro* his gun. Infiltration of the
enemy had oy this time made the posi¬
tion untenable, and the order was
given to withdraw. Private Cowan was
the Last man to leave, voluntarily
covering the withdrawal of his remain¬
ing comrades. His heroic actions were
entirely responsible for allowing the
remaining men to retire successfully
from the scene of their last-ditch
stand."

Signed Harry S. Truman

A letter to Private Cowan's bereaved
parents dated 71 Sept. 101*5 and signed
by Thomas A. Harris Jr., Capt. of the
?3rd Infantry added further lustre to
the young soldier's heroic stand. It
reads as foll<mrs.

"Dear Hr. and Mrs. Cowan :

I received your letter of September
?Lth informing us of the clippings and
citation you are sending to us.

I will try to describe what we in¬
tend to do with your son's picture.
There is another boy in this Compary
who received the Medal of Honor) his
name is Sgt. Jose H. Lopei of Browns¬
ville, Texas. We Intend to take the
pictures of your son and Sgt. Lopes
and place them on a mahogany background
and cover them with a material to pre¬
serve them. Underneath will be a
silver plaoue engraved with their
citations.

I was the Company Commander of

Company "M" last December. Your son
was not killed on the day for which he
received the Medal of Honor, but was
killed the next day by an eneny tank.
The last time I saw your son was on
the night of December 16 around mid¬
night. He was a great soldier and the
Medal of Honor is only a small tribute
to him. EHie to his action he saved a
complete company of almost one hundred
and fifty men from being destroyed.

His action was one of the greatest
examples of American courage and fight¬
ing spirit I have heard of. The men
who were in Company "I”, 23d Infantry
at that time swear to this.

In your sonfs platoon of thirty men
only four remained uninjured in the
three days fighting of 17th, 18th, and
19th of December.

Once again thanks very much for your
assistance, and if I can be of ary as¬
sistance to you in ary way, please call
on me.

Very sincerely yours,

Thomas A. Harris Jr.

Capt. 23d Infantry11

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(3) Charles ftissell Cowan , b. , 13 July 1921*;
m., 1st., Aug. 19 1*7, Mildred Plowe. No
children by this marriage* He m., 2nd.,
29 Dec. 1951, Harriette Stewart. He
graduated from the Univ. of Kansas with
a degree of B.A. and from Northwestern
Medical College in Dec. 19l*7 with the
degree of M.D. He was a Captain in the
Medical Corps, 6th General Dispensary,
at Chimon, France. He is presently in
charge of the U.S. Hospital at Paris,
France. Children by 2nd. marriage, (1)
Michele M*rie Cowan5, b., 1 Oct. 1952;

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(2) Charlette Harriett* Cowan , b. , 6
Sept. 195*;.

Frances Martha Eller , b. , 19 Sept. 1096; a., 2li
Oct. 1925, Edvard E. Anderson. He is engaged
in the printing business at Los Angeles, Calif.
Children! a

(1) Marilyn Karie Anderson , b. 30 Apr. 1930;
d. 2li June 1930.

(2) Joyce Arlene Anderson , b.f 5 Mov. 1931* *.
2ii Aug. 1952, Oius David Richardson.

Ray nor i Eller', 0., 23 Feb. 1900; a., 1st., 7
Jan. 1933* Gertrude Anderson. He is a profes¬
sional accountant and Assistant Secretary and
Auditor for the Los Angeles Stock Exchange.

He a., 2nd., 29 June 19L7, Billie Flick; no
children.

Children all oy first aarriaget

(1) Gary Raymond Eller . .. .. Oct. 1933.

(2) J***s William Eller , b., 29 June 1939.

(3) Mlctmsl Anthony Eller^, b., 5 June 19L1.

(13) Edson Christy Elle/ , b., 27 Hay 1°6L, in Wapello Co.,
Iowa; d., 25 Jan. 1920, In Hastings, Hebr. He a., 25
March 1*90, in Cl^r Center, Hebr., Jenrie K. Davie,
b. 8 March 1866, in Fre^rlckstown, Ohio; d. 9 Oct.
1952. Mr. Eller, in co^ary with his next older
brother, Jacob, moved froa his parental hoe* in
Wapello Co., Iowa to Hebr. in 1883. He was first
eaployed by the Frenont, Elk horn and Missouri 7al ley
Railroad Co., later a part of the C, A M. W. systea,
and lived at Harvard, Hebr. Here he learned tele¬
graphy. In 1891 he was promoted to the position of
station agent at Eldons, Hebr. In 1900 he became
the station agent for the C. *< H. W. R.P. Co. at
Cclon, Hebr. Three years later, in 1903, he was
transferred to York, Hebr. end given the position of
Freight agent and telegrapher. In 1907 he aoved to
Hastings, Hebr. where he was Freight and Telegraph
agent for the C. 4 N. W. R.R. until his retirement,
because of 111 health, In 1910. He died in 1920*

The children of Edson Christy Eller and his wife,

(li)

Jennie M. Davis were:

(1) Floyd E. Eller^, b., 7 Sept# 1893 in Eldorado,
Nebr.; m., 1st., 13 June 1918, at Camp Cocfy,
Teeming, New Mexico, Ella A. Decker# Divorced
1930. He m. 2nd#, 18 July 1931, Mrs# Marjorie
Livinii Kidder whose maiden name was Marjorie
Livinii Christoferson. Mr# Eller received his
education st Hastings, Nebr# High School and in
the college of engineering at the Univ# of
Minnesota# He enlisted in Co# G. , 5th Nebr#

Inf# (N.G. ) 28 Apr# 1913 and on 16 Jan# 1916,
was appointed 2nd# Lieut# On 17 June 1916 he
was mustered into the Federal Airy for Mexican
Border service and served in the lower Rio
Grande Valley with the 5th Nebr# Inf# and 26th
U# S, Inf. He was mastered out of Federal
Service on 21 Feb. 1917# He was again mustered
into Federal Service with the 5th Nebr. Inf.,

15 July 1917 and on 2 Oct. 1917 was promoted to
1st# Lieut. Inf. The regimental designation of
the 5th Nebr. was changed to 13lith Inf., 3kth
Division in the autumn of 1917 at Camp Co(fy,

N. M. Mr. Eller served overseas (France) from
13 Oct. 1918 to 28 June 1919 and was mustered
out of Federal Service and honorably discharged

16 July 1918.

He was appointed 1st. Lt. Inf. Reserve, 15
May 1922 and promoted to Capt., 5 Nov# 1923*

He was student officer at the Infantry School
in Fort Benning, Ga. in 1927 and appointed
Major in the Inf. Reserve, 1 Sept# 1931. He
taught mathematics at the Boys Vocational High
School, Mpls., Minn, from 1927 to 19ii0.

He was ordered into active Federal Service
with U# S. Any as Major, Inf., 25 Nov. 19li0 at
Fort Snelling, Minnesota and served as Battalian
Comdr, f ram 25 Nov. 19li0 to 8 Oct. 191*1. He was
Comm.Hg. officer, Reception Center, at Ft# Snell¬
ing, Minn., from 9 Oct. 19lil to 17 Feb# 19 1*1*.

He was promoted to Lt. Col. Inf# U.S.A., 1 Feb#
191*2 with one decoration.

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He departed for European Theatre of opera¬
tions IE Feb. lOUi. He served in hales, Eng¬
land, France, Belgiun, Semany an* Austria and
was in three can pair ns, namely Norrandy, north¬
ern France an* Rhineland froR IE June to 15
Oct. IoUj. He was decorated by the Republic
of France and returned to U. S. A. 1 June l^ti 7 .

He served fra* 15 July 19L7 to ) August
1951 %t Kinneapolle, Minnesota as ass't. senior
instructor, organised rtserre, U. S. A re^r,
(Minnesota) and as Executive Officer to the
Chief of the Minnesota Military ristrict. He
was promoted to Colonel, Infantry, U. S. Arv^*,

8 June 1950*

On 2 Aug. 1951 he departed for overseas
duty with the Far East CorrajvI in Tokyo, Japan
and on 77. Aug. 1951 was assigned as chief of a
staff section on the staff of the Candg.
General, Japan Logistical comwind, stationed at
Yokohama, Japan. This eo rrand tarnished all
logistical support for the United Nations
Amies flghtlrv in Korea. He was assigned to
temporary 'taty, Baguio City, P. I., Sept. 19 51.
He served In Korea fro* 1? May 1953 to ?1» Aug.
1953 and received an Oak Leaf Cluster decora¬
tion.

Returned to U. S. ?9 Aug. 1953. Retired
fra* active Federal Service, 33 Sept. 1953, due
to age (60 yre.), after having attained a
military status of 37 yrs., 7 nos. and fc days.
Nearly IE of these years were devoted to Fed¬
eral service.

He reentered the teachlr^ field, 2 Dec.

1953, as teacher of nathenatlcs in the Voca¬
tional High School, ^ ls., Minn, where he now
lives.

Children tjy his first wife were two sons as
follows!

(1) Floyd E. £Utr, Jr., b. 9 April 1919,

York, M. Y. Served In U. S. Amy Air

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Corps in Europe during World War II fly¬
ing many missions over France and Germany,

(2) Clinton D, Eller^, b, 11* April 1925,

Minneapolis, Minn, Served in U, S, Army
Air Corps in Europe daring World War II
flying approximately thirty missions over
France, Germany, Rumania and Italy as a
crew member of B-17 Bombers (Flying Fort¬
resses),

Children by second wife were:

(3) Flo Marjorie Eller^, b, Mpls., Minn., 17

Feb, 1<*35. She graduated frar. Washburn
H. S., Minneapolis, Minn, and is now a
senior in Macalaster College, St. Paul,

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(li) Ralph Gordon Eller , b. in Minneapolis,

Minn., 22 Oct. 1937. He graduated from
Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Minn,
and attended the Univ. of Minnesota for
one year, 1955-56. He presently is con¬
tinuing his college work at Macalaster
College, St, Paul, Minn,

(5) Roger Floyd Eller^, b, 20 March 1939 in

Minneapolis, Minn, He presently is a
student at Washburn High School, Minne¬
apolis, Minn,

(6) Robert Arthur Eller , an adopted son, b,

15 Jan. 1921*, Minneapolis, Minn., son of
his second wife by her first husband.

His name was legally changed to Eller,

He graduated from the Institute of Tech¬
nology, Univ, of Minn., June 191*9, with
degree of B. S. in Electrical Engineering.
Then took one year of Post Grad, work in
industrial engineering at the same Univ,,
finishing in June of 1950, Employed as
electrical engineer with Union Power &
Electric Co., St. Louis, Mo. from early
1952 to date. He served three years
during World War II in U. S. Amy Air
Corps and rose to rank of 2nd. Lt.

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(BoMbadier). Served during Korean
Emergency fro* July 19*X) until early
1*5? aa an Instructor In electronics and
cocmnicatlons at the Air Force School,
Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois.

(?) Lyle Darts Eller^, b. at Eldorado, Msbr., Q DM«
1B95| n., 1st., 1? June 1917, Erla T. McCarl,
divorced 193?. He a. 7 .. 1? Oct. 1935,

Margaret Ellen Ward, b. 29 Oct. 1906. Faeily
lived at Mitchell, South Dakota until the spring
of 1926 and presently lives at 331} Roberta
Street, Reno, Mevada.

Children by first wife) there were none by his
second wlfet

(1) Erla Jean Eller , b., ?6 Feb. 1020) a., 21
May 19)6, Willard T. Weller, divorced
July 191*6. She a. ?rv*., ?<* Mor. 191*6,
Wllllaa A. T append or f Jr., b. 31 Hay
1916. Children by first Marriage, (1)

Noel Thoaas Weller9, b. 10 J an. 1939;

(?) Diane Jean Weiler9, t>, 2 June 19**0.
There are no children by second Marriage.
Feally lives presently at 293? Myere
St. , Burbank, California.

(3) laster C. Eller7, b. , at Eldorado, Mebr. , 1 Apr.
1696) a. , ?? March 19 , Mttl "orris, b., 26

June 1903 st Palestine, Ill. He enlisted in
the Kavy In World War I and aerred froa 1917 to
1919. Fmi ly real its at 1337 Berkeley St.,

Santa Monica, California.

Children, one ton. r

(1) Robert Morris Eller , b., ?3 Feb. 1926, at
Mitchell, South Dakota. Llws In Santa
Monica, Calif. He did not Marry .

(Ii) C. Ell.r7. b., 17 'He. 1000. Illn.** In

the early 1930vs left her a hopeleea Invalid
and her aon ’Vlght, who adopted the nans rwight
Eller, was taken Into the hoae of hit Mother's
cousin, Merle (Rollins) Eller, and raised to

manhood* He married Mrs. Helen Patricia
delnbersac whose first husband, now divorced,
was Viscount Guy delnbersac of Paris, France*

She is a daughter of Jesse Forest and Patricia
Hazlet Lynn Ingle and was born at Bedford, Ind*,
25 May 1920. By her first husband there was a
daughter Jill delnbersac, bom 21 March 191*8,
who now goes by the name of Jill delnbersac
Eller. This child is presently the Vicomtesse
and since no other heir exists will some day, if
she lives, be the Marchioness delnbersac, a title
that today, of course, has no standing in France.
Dwight Eller and his wife Patricia now live in
Tuscon, Arizona where he is a Junior business
law student in the University of Arizona. They
have two children, namely, (1) Eric Daniel Eller9
and (2) Judith Merle Eller.9

(ll*) Maggie Eller^, (Harvey^, Simeon^, John\ Peter^, George
Michael^) was b., 2 March 1066, in Wapello Co., Iowa
and d., 29 May 1935* She married, h Sept. LB81*,
Edward Delos Davis, who was bom 2h Dec. 1855 in
Competine Twsp. of Wapello Co., Iowa; d. 9 April
19l*0 at his farm home in Competine Twsp. of Wapello
Co., Iowa where he and his wife had lived continuous¬
ly since their marriage. Both lie buried in the
Competine Cemetery east of Farson, Wapello Co., Iowa.
Mr. Davis was the second son of William Davis, b., 2
May 1826, near Abingdon, Va*; d. 26 Sept. 1903 in
Wapello Co., Iowa, and his wife Pricilla Mowery, b.,
h July 1833, in Knox Co., Ohio; d. 9 Jan. 1920, in
Wapello Co., Iowa. William Davis descended from an
English-Irlsh family of long standing in Virginia.

He came via Indiana to Wapello Co., Iowa, in 1852
and there married Pricilla Mowery, an American bom
girl of pure German blood, and raised a family of
six sons and two daughters. He settled on land
bordering Competine Creek three miles east of Farson,
Iowa. Much of this new land was heavily wooded and
had to be cleared by Mr. Davis and his sturdy sons
all of whom became expert woodsmen. From rails split

on the fin* the open prairie fields on the parental
farm were enclosed by a nine rail, stake and rider
fence. On this fine far* a gracious house was built
in 1670 which no longer exists*

Edward Hsloe Daria attended advanced schools In
Ottumwa, be cane a school teacher and found his wife
fro* among his pupils. He married her In l£6Jj and
the following spring, 1685, settled on a fine farm
three miles north of Competlne in Wapello Co* on the
F.eokuk-Wapello County line* Here he and his wife
lived the remainder of their lives an4, raised a
family of seven boys and one girl. Both were members
of the Baptist Church, greatly beloved by their neigh¬
bors, and, in every way, exemplary eltlaena*

Their children were i

(1) Wilbur Curtis Davis7, b. 15 Aug. 188 5 1 m. , 22
Sept. 1906, Katherine Elisabeth Thompson, b.

7 July lBSJit d. p July 19)0# She was a dau*
of Hr. and Hra, Shvld H. Thompson. He attended
Iowa State College for one year and settled on
a farm near Competlne which he eoll toon after
hie father9e death, removing at that time to
another farm located about 1$ miles west of
Hartlnaburg, Iowa* Falling health decided him
to mo'm to Oreeley, Colorado to be near hit
eldest daughter, Dorothy Irene Orlffln where
he preeerrtly llvee*

Chi Id rent

(1) Dorothy Irene Davla^, b. U Oct. 1910; a.,
let., Pi* Dec. 1030, Howard Mix, b. ?

March 1910. 3he m. ?nd., May 19(i9
Cyrus Lee Orlffln and now lives at
Greeley, Colo* Children by first mar¬
riage were, (1) Ronald Ourtls Klx J, b*
lii Oct. 19U3# Children by second mar¬
riage, (?) Karol Lee Griffin9, b. 11
Cr * 0C?*

(?) Margaret Eleanor Davia , b* 9 Aug* 191?|

a. , 2U Dec. 1936, Pmil Elexander Hey no Ida,

b. 30 Jan. 191?. Family lives In

They have no child-

Los Angeles, Calif,
ren,

(3) Waldo Edward Davis0, b, 13 July 191ii; m,,

19 May 19U6, Madelyn Jeanne Blatz, b,

21 Dec. 1900. He served in the Signal
Corps of the U, S, Arry from 30 Sept.

19hl to 18 Oct, 19^5, mostly in the
British West Indies, World War II, He
was recalled, 3 Nov, 1950, for ten months
Korean Transport duty. He was discharged
30 Nov, 1951. Family lives at Jonesboro,
Arkansas, No children,

(2) Edward Clayton Davis^, b. 10 Feb. 1887; m., 9

Aug, 1917, Anna Gerholz, b, 2h April 189h. He
graduated from Iowa State College, in the dept,
of Animal Husbandry in 1911. He taught two
years in the high school at St, Peter, Minn,
and one year at the Minnesota Agricultural
College of the Univ, of Minnesota, Since 19 Hi
he has operated his own seed and Implement
business at St, Peter, Minn, On 27 May 1918
he was inducted into the U, S. Army and served
in France with Co. A., Ill Infantry, 28th
Division and was with his company in the his¬
toric battle of the St, Michiel Salient and
Argonne forest. He was discharged 15 May 1919.
Mr, Davis is a member of the honorary scho¬
lastic fraternities of Alpha Zeta and Delta
Sigma Rho and presently is an Elder of the
St, Peter Presbyterian Church and a Knight
Templar of the Masonic Order,

Children:

(1) Edward Clayton Davis', b, 28 April 1915;
m, lii Aug, 19U*, Geraldine Rains, b. 28
Jan. 1918. He graduated, 19li0, from the
Oustavus Adolphus College at St, Peter,
Minn. He was a Naval Cadet at Pensacola,
Florida, 19i*0-Jjl and in the Marine Corps
19b2 from which he was given a medical
discharge. Determined to serve hie

21*7

country in the greet war be applied for
the draft in 191*2 and was itade an Air
Force Cadet Jan. 191*3 and fro* Aug. 191*1*
to Sept. 191*5 was a B17 navigator and
2nd. It. oased in England. He was dis¬
charged from the service Sept. )9l*5« He
and faally presently live at St. Peter,
Kinn. Children, (1) Edward Clayton
Daria III0, b. 12 Pay 191*6; (2) Blair
E-e* *nd Darla0, b. 16 Feb. 1950.

(2) Virginia Davis0, t. 20 Feb. 1920; a., 29

Jan. 1950, Willlaa Johnson, b. 31 July
1922. .She g radiated f res* Ousts vus
Adolphus College at St. Peter, Pinn. in
191*2. Fanlly lives in Washington, D. C.
Children, (1) Oar-r • illia* Johnson0, b.

31 May 1 (2) Krlstla Johnaoa?, b. 1*

June 19C3; (3) Barbara Johnson0, b. 3
Jan. 1 fl») Hark Johnson0, b. 20 Feb.

10«*.

(3) Jkith Ann Dtrls , b. 16 rise. 1921; d. 10

March 1923.

(1*) Janet Darla , b. 13 June 1933; *•, 10 June
1993 , Donald Distal, b. 10 Jan. 193?.

She graduated fra* Oustavua Adolf hue
College at St. Peter, Minn. Children,

(1) Steven .'avis ristel^, b. ?? Jar.. 1951,.
(5) Joanns Davie®, b. 13 Aug. 1935. 3he is a
graduate of the Him. State Teachers
Collsge at Mankato, Minn.

(3) Clarence Jacob Davis7, b. 19 Pay 1091; d. 20

July 1916; a., 15 Dsc. 1915, Grace Hawthorne,
b. 29 Feb. 109(*. He attended Iowa State
College at Asea, Iowa for three years where he
was s MMber of the Acscis Fraternity. At the
ties of his death he was 9upt. of Schools at
Lewis, Iwi, They had one son, nanely;

(1) Lyle Delos Darla , b. 20 Feb. 19 if; a, 1
Nor. 191*1, Violet Kaude Anderson, b. 31
July 19 1!*, He is a certified public
accountant and tax auditor. They hare

two adopted children, namely, (1) John
Martin Davis, b, 2h Aug* 19U3 5 (2) Carin
Jean Davis, b, 29 Dec. 19U*. The family
now lives at Santa Ana, Calif.

(h) Mary Celia Davis^, b. 6 Oct. 1893; m. , 1st., 23
Feb. 1916, Floyd Douglas, b. 7 May 1893; d. 17
Oct. 1918. She m., 2nd., 3 July 1926, Harlan
J. Shaw, b. 29 July 1898 who was an electrician
with the Northern States Power Co* at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. There were no children by either
marriage. Family now living on a farm near
Batavia, Iowa.

(5) Otis Eller Davis^, b. 17 Oct. 1895; d., unmarried

20 Oct. 1918. He was inducted into the U. S.
Army 21 July 1918 and received a medical dis¬
charge, for weak heart, 29 July 1918. He died
20 Oct. 1918 in the influenza epidemic of that
year.

(6) Herbert Plank Davis', b. 18 Dec. 1897; d., 2h

Jan. 1950, at Long Beach, Calif. He m. Hi
March 1922, Ruth Cecil, b. 10 March 1898. He
completed 3 years at the State Univ. of Iowa
in the course of Business Administration. He
enlisted in the S.A.T.C. at the Univ. of Iowa,
World War I, but did not see service. He was
employed by the Standard Oil Co. and during
World War II by the North American Aircraft
Corp. in Long Beach, Calif. The widow and
sons now reside at Long Beach, Calif.

Children:

(1) Cecil Gene Paris6 , b. 31 July 1923; m., 7

July 19h6; Jewel Francis Pate, b. 17
July 192h. He was a B-17 gunner in the
100 Bomber Group and was captured and
imprisioned in Germany for several months
during World War II. There are no child-
ren.

(2) William Bruce Davis , b. 7 Feb. 1929; m.,

22 Aug. 19li7, Gloria Joan Hazlett, b.

20 Jan. 1931# Children, (1) Theresa

?!i 9

Yronne Darla , b. 20 Apr. 19L9; (2) Vanda
Lee Daria*, b. 11 Sept. 1952; (3) Kenneth
Bruce Daria °, b. Hi Oct. 19 9i.

(3) Lorin Fradarick Darla^, b. 21 Oct. 1930;

|.9 ?ti Juna 19 ^ . Marilla Kaa ftirgees,
b. 20 Dac. 1937. Ha aarrad In tha U. S,
Arxj In tha Kora an War. Children, (1)
Hobart keyne DarlaC, b. 29 Au*. 1956.

(7) Hoy Martin Daria?, b. 12 March 1902; ■•, 3 July
1926, Ida Maa allay, b. 1 July 1907. Ha la a
farmer at Bloomfield, Iowa.

Childrant

(1) Varran VI lay Daria , b. 10 July 193L; a.t

21 Nor. 1996, Ju'ty Banaon, b. 23 Dac.
1937.

(2) Wayne Darla , b. ?L Sapt. 1937.

()) Wanfell b. ?6 Mot. 19%.

(6) Raymond laalia Daria , b. 26 April 1*06; a., 9
Juna 1926, Haiti Prill na Kolroyd, b. 6 Juna
1903* Both ha and hla wife art graduates of
tha Unlr, of Iowa. Ha ha a for twenty four
yaara baar an employee of tha Ooo^yaa r Tire
and Hi b bar Coe* any and la preaentl y •• nr in* aa
Aaalatant Manager of tha Natali Store Dlrialon.
Family now reel dee at Akron, Ohio.

Children, one eon.

(1) Ronald lynn Darla**, b. L Nor. 1937. Ha
preaentl y la an a hr Lnee rl ng etudent at
Rica Institute at Houaton, Texas .

(15) Otla Header Bile/', (Harray , Simeon**, John^, Peter*,
Oaorgr Michael1), b. 20 July 1870 In Wapello Co.,
Iowa; d. 10 Oct. 19Ui at Long beach, Calif. He m.
let., 26 Dec. 1893, Celia 0. Allbery, b., 26 Sept.
1868, in ■mhlnjlon Co., Ohio; d., 26 June 1896 in
Omaha, Nebr. He m. 2nd., 6 Oct. 1900, Ruth Matron,
b. 18 Auk. 1^73 in Holland, Michigan; d., 26 Dec.
1925, In Lincoln, Nebr. Ha a. 3rd., 11 Oct. 1926,

Mra. Maude Koone, bom Maude Powe 11. There waa no

issue by this third marriage. Otis Header Eller
graduated from the Fremont, Nebraska Normal School
in 1893, and in November of the same year was em¬
ployed by the U. S. Mail service which became his
life’s work. He was advanced to a supervisory posi¬
tion, 1 Oct. 1929, and later advanced to the position
of Chief Clerk of the service at Lincoln, Nebr. He
retired by reason of age limit, 1 Aug. 19b0, and re¬
moved to Long Beach, Calif*

Children by first wife:

(1) Harold Otis Eller^, b. 9 Oct. 189U ; d* 9 April

1895.

(2) Warren Herbert Eller^, b. 26 June 1896, at Long

Pine, Nebr*; m. , 26 May 1928, Marguerite
Stevens of Vfymore, Nebr., dau. of James Thomas
and Alice B. Stevens. He graduated B.A. from
the Univ. of Nebr. in 1918 and M,D* from the
same college in 1923* He settled in Sayville,
Long Island, N# Y. where he is one of the com¬
munity^ leading physicians.

Children, one son.

(1) Richard Warren Eller^, b. lb June 1930 in
Sayville, L. I.; m. , 13 June 1953, Judith
Forssell, dau. of Mr. and Mrs. William
Forssell of Walpole, Mass. She was kill¬
ed in an automobile accident near Rome,

N. Y., lii May 1955. Her husband was
badly hurt but recovered. He graduated
from Haverford College in June of 1952.

He entered the U. S. Air Force, 31 July
1952 and was discharged 1 Sept. 1955 as
a 1st. Lieut. On 5 Sept, 1955 he entered
the Temple Univ. College of Medicine in
Philadelphia, Pa.

Children of Otis Reader Eller^ by 2nd. wife, one son.

(3) Henry Matrau Eller^, b. 20 Feb. 190b; m. 17 Sept.

193b, in Chicago, Victoria Schaffer, dau, of
Dr, and Mrs. Schaffer of New York City, N, Y,

He graduated from the Univ, of Nebr. in 1925

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with the degree of B.A. Hie high scholastic
standing won hi* membership in Phi Beta Kappa
and a university scholarship In Harvard Univ.
where he received his M*A. degree In 1926. He
taught Ancient Languages in Whitman College at
Walla Walla, Washington for three years* He
spent the suwrr of 1929 In England and upon
hls return entered the 5areral Theological
Seninary In Hew York City and graduated the re -
fr or. In 193?* He taught In this seminary for
two years. He was ordained to the Episcopal
Priesthood in the University Episcopal Church
in Lincoln, Hebr. ty Bishop Shayler in 1933 •

In 193L he entered the Univ. of Chicago where
he was awarded the degree of Ph.D In 1937* He
then was chosen head of the ~>ept* of Ancient
Languages of Elmhurst College at Elmhurst,

Ill. * a position hr held for two years* He
then took a pastorate at Tacoma, Washington
and served it until 19S0. In 1951 he became
assistant at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
Brooklyn, M. Y* where he presently lives*

Children, one daughter;

(1) ftith ElUatwth Ellar*, b. V June 1913.

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5

JOHN CLEVELAND ELLER

Son of Simeon Eller, Family XII, p. 177 herein.

FAMILY XIV

JOHN CLEVELAND ELLER , (Simeon*, John3, Peter2, George
Michael^) was bom in Wilkes Co., N. C. 6 July 1822; died
12 Nov. 1892 on his farm near Trumbull, Clay County, Nebr.

He married, 18 Feb. 181*5, Jane Rebecca Montgomery, bom in
Wilkes County, N. C., 1 July 1827; d., 2h July 1909, at
Harvard, Clay County, Nebr. She was a daughter of Hugh
Montgomery, John Cleveland Eller and his wife Jane Rebecca
joined the New Hope Baptist Church located some six miles
north west of North Wilkesboro, N, C. in 18U7 and, there¬
after, helped to organize and sustain other churches of the
same faith in North Carolina and in Iowa and Nebraska where
the family later lived. He was a life member of the Baptist
Missionary Society and a devoted Christian advocate and
leader throughout his life. In 1853, with his brother,
William Eller, he removed, by covered wagon, to Jefferson
County, Iowa where his brother, Harvey Eller, had settled a
year earlier and where his uncle, David Eller had lived
since about I838. He lived in this vicinity until the year
1873 when he moved again to a farm near Trumbull, Clay Co*,
Nebr. where he lived the remainder of his life.

Children of John Cleveland Eller and his wife Jane
Rebecca Montgomery were: (Family Bibles and other family
records, the latter supplied by the late Israel Curtis
Eller^, a nephew, and Mary Grace (Eller) Clary, a grand¬
daughter of Simi, California.)

(1) Edmund Lee Eller^, b., 10 Jan. 18U6, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.; d., 29 May 1900, in Jefferson Co., Icwa. He
m., 10 Nov. 1881, in Jefferson Co*, Iowa, Emma V.
Peck, b. 23 Dec. i860 in Jefferson Co., Iowa; d, 10
April 1926, in Jefferson Co., Iowa. She was a dau.
of William D. and Sarah Peck. Both lie buried in the
old Competine Cemetery located one half mile east of
Farson, Wapello Co., Iowa.

Their children were:

(1) Rolla Eller7, b. 23 Aug. 1882; d. 25 Nov. 1885.

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(2)

(3)

U)

(Gravestone in Conpetine Cemetery)

Dext«r Eller7, b. 1? Not. 1687; d. 27 (22) July
191b (Ibid); m., 25 July 1913, Ora Ruggles.

He was a farmer in Jefferson Co., Iowa.

Infant Eller7, b. and d. 20 Dec. 1J00. (Ibid)
Nellie *. Eller7, b. 1«? July 1898; 31 Dec.

191b, Robert J, Cumingham, a farmer, b. 9
July 1891. Their children were, (1) Ariel
Cunningham*, b. 13 Dec. 1916; m., 5 Sept. 193b,
Robert Bates, b. 25 June 1905. They have three
children; (2) Exra Cunningham , b. 25 July 1919
m., 13 Jan. 19b2, Esther Wilson, b. m Aug.
1919; (3) Dallas C. Cunningham. , b. 29 July

1922; (b) Marvin A. Cunningham^, b. 1 Sept.
1933.

James Allen Eller^, b., 11 March l8b7, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.; d., 12 Jan. 1929; m., 8 Aug. 1872, Mary Jane
Tinsley, b., 2L Oct. I8b7, in Jefferson Co., Iowa;
d. 20 July 1917. She was a daughter of Claybom C.
Tinsley and his wife, the widow Mary (Eller) Koo ns,
daughter of David Eller^, (johiP, Peter^, George
Michael*), and his first wife Tabitha Judd. (See
John Eller Family VT herein.) James Allen Eller^ was
a farmer in Jefferson Co., Iowa. He and his wife lie
buried in the old Competine Cemtery one half mile
east of Farson, Wapello County, Iowa.

Children:

(1) Edward Eldon Eller^, b. 27 April 187*3; d. 11 July
1926; 19 Dec. 1911, Eva B. Pickerel, b. ?

Nov. 1890; d. 11 July 1926.

Their children we

3*.

(2)

(1) Marie M. Eller0 who married and had a dau.

Pattie Eller?.

(2) Jackey Eller®.

(3) Max Eller8.

(b) Janice Eller8.

Jesse Eller^. He married and had 3 children,
one naaed Earl M. Eller8.

(3) Wilbur L. Eller , d. h April 1879. (Gravestone)

( h ) Myrtle L. Eller^, b. 2h Sept. 1885; m., 17 Feb.

1909, Logan Pickerel, age 23, of Batavia, Iowa.
He was a son of Henry C. and Elizabeth (McQuery)
Pickerel. (Jefferson Co., Iowa marriages.)

She may have married a second husband, Verden
J. Monghler, b. 27 Jan. 1883.

Alexander Hamilton Eller^, b., lii May 18U8 , in Wilkes
Co., N. C.; d., lU Sept. 1911, in Page Co., Iowa; m.,
19 Nov. 1871, Lucy Jane Peck, b. 25 May 1850 in
Muskego, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin; d., 3 Sept. 1932,
in Des Moines, Iowa. She was a dau. of William D.
and Sarah Peck. Alexander Hamilton Eller and his
wife, Mary Jane, were members of the Baptist Church.

He was a successful fanner in Jefferson Co., Iowa
and a staunch Republican in politics.

Children:

(1) Cecil L. Eller^, b., 12 March 1873, in Jefferson
Co., Iowa; m., 3 June 1903, Cora Timmonds, b.
April 1875. He was a doctor of dental surgery
and practiced in several places, including
Hedrick, Keokuk and Ottumwa, Iowa.

Children:

(1) Stratton R. Eller , b., 22 May 1909, at

Hedrick, Iowa; m., 5 June 1937, Rosalie
Swanson, dau. of Frederick and Beatrice
(Buxton) Swanson of DesMoines, Iowa.

Her grandfather was Mr. David H. Buxton
who founded the Globe Machinery and
Supply Company of DesMoines. Stratton
R. Eller is an Attorney at Law with of¬
fices in DesMoines. Two of his child¬
ren are (1) David Buxton Eller^, b. 1
March 1939; (2) Stratton Eller^, b. 3
Feb. 19Ui.

(2) Ladle B. Eller®, b., 9 March 1911, at

Hedrick, Keokuk Co., Iowa; m«, 19 May
1937, Freeman Dotson. Children, (l)

255

Stephen Dee Dotson , b. 21 March 19lil;

(2) Michall J. Dotson0, b. 6 May 19l»3*

(2) Winthrop D# Eller^, b. 13 Sept, 16 7li ; d. 21 Dec.

1885. (Gravestone)

(3) Chester J. EUer^, b., 17 Aug. 1876, in Jefferson

Co,, Iowa; m. 1st., 1 May 1907, May Johnston of

Boone, Iowa. No issue. He married a second

time and by this marriage had a daughter, Ariel
o

Eller . He is an attorney at law in DesMoines,

Iowa.

(Ji) Nellie May Eller^, b., 9 May 1878, in Jefferson
Co., Iowa; d., 13 Nov. 1932 near Spencer, Iowa;
a., 7 Feb. 1897, Ira E. Steele, aged 21 at time
of marriage. (Jefferson Co* Marriages.)

Children*

(1) Florence Ellen Steele , b. 11 Sept. 1898;

m., 20 April 1918, Charles Frederick
Mieras, b. 2 June 1890. Their children
were, (1) Howard Charles Mieras0, b. 1L
May 1920; (?) Helen Amelia Mieras9, b.

19 Feb. 1922; (3) Marcia Mieras0, b. 16
Nov. 1925; (U) Audrey Lucile Mieras0, b,
28 Oct. 1928; (5) Jason Everett Mieras0,
b. 20 Dec. 1930; (6) Nellie Jean Mieras0,
b. 19 Feb. 1933; (7) Rebecca Adeline
Mieras0, b. 1? Oct. 1935*

(2) Lillian Cora Steele*, b., 7 Dec. 1899, at

Royal, Iowa; m. 29 Sept. 1923, Arthur J.
Norman, b., U June 1896 in Chicago, Ill.
He is a doctor of dental surgery* Child¬
ren, (1) Arthur J. Norman Jr.°, b. , 22
May 1925, in Chicago; (2) Meria* Cells
Noman0, b., 2 Jan. 1927, in Chicago; (3)
Royal L* Norman0, b* 1 March 1931, in
Huntley, Ill*

(3) Helen Steele0, b. 1903; d., Aug. 1905* at

age of 2 years.

(ii) Daughter Steele*, twin of next above, died
in infancy.

(5) Edwin Silas Steele°, b. 7 May 1905; m. , 26

June 1932, Lora Ruth Walker, b. 11 Dec.
1907. Children, (1) Charles R. Steele ,
b. 15 Aug. 1933; (2) Lora Enid Steele?,
b. 21 Nov. 1935; (3) John Edwin Steele?,
b. 23 March 19U0.

Q

(6) Lloyd Holton Steele , died in infancy.

(7) Esther Ilene Steele®, b. 16 Nov. 1908. She

was a teacher and resided in California.

(8) Maxine Louise Steele®, b. 25 June 1912; m.,

7 Oct. 193U, Allen Gould Richardson, b.

3 March 1911. Children, (1) Ann Steele
Richardson0, b. 27 Sept. 1938; (2) Ran¬
dolph William Richardson?, b. 11 Jan.

1 9h2.

(5) Lloyd Roscoe Eller , b. 28 Jan. 1880; d. 27 Jan.

1951; m., 12 Sept. 1906, Bessie McCoy. He was
a doctor of dental surgery.

Children:

(1) Lancelot W. Eller , b. 1* May 1908; m.

Elizabeth H. Moorehead, b. IS Aug. 1915.
He was a captain in the 2nd. World War.

One child was Thomas R. Eller?, b. 17
June 19ii2.

(2) Kathleen R. Eller , b. 27 Oct. 1912.

(6) Lillian Rose Eller^, twin with Lloyd Roscoe

Eller7, b. 28 Jan. 1880; m., 19 Feb. 1908,

James H. Fox, d. 8 Jan. 1937.

Children:

(1) Nellie M. Fox8, b. 23 Sept. 1909; m., 3
Oct. 1935, Clarence D. Nelson of the
Nelson Fruit Co. of Seattle, Washington.
Two children were, (1) Claudia May Nelson^
b. 13 June 1937; (2) Roy Wendill Nelson?,
b. 1 June 19b0.

(7) Mol lie G. Eller7, b. 29 May 1881; m., 19 July

1907, Lee B. Forrest who d. 21 Sept. 1923#

Children, one dau.

(1) Beatrice B. Forrest8, b. 26 Sept. 1917*

25 7

(6) Clyde Blaine Eller , b. Hi Aug. 188b; m.t 7 July
1915, *yra Graff. He was a dental surgeon at
Clarlnda, I«a,

Children:

(1) John Valentine Eller , b., 18 June 1916,
in Page Co., Iowa.

Lucy Jane Eller®, b. 6 July 1918; a., 21
June 19lil, Robert R. Col line . One child
Is Richard Thomas CollineQ, b. 7 Nov.

(?)

8

U)

19li3 •

(3) Clyde Blaine Eller Jr.^, b. , h Feb. 1921,

In Page Co., Iowa; a., 17 April 19ii3»
Marilyn Claire Meads of Ames, Iowa. One
child is David Brian EUer9, b. 15 Feb.

lAke

(L) Theodore Wlnthrop Eller , b., 10 Aug. 19?b,
in Page Co., Icwa.

(9) Clara Belle Eller^, twin with Clyde Blaine Eller^,
b. lb Aug. lP8bj i., 10 July 1907, Floyd R«
Oambell, b. , ?3 July 1883, at Hedrick, Keolruk
Co., Iowa. He was a son of E. R. and Sarah
(Caldwell) Oambell. Floyd R. Gambell attended
Iowa State College and at the time of his mar¬
riage was a merchant at Linby, Iowa and later
lived In Los Gatos, California,

Chi ldren:

(1) Dorothy Oarbell^, b. L Nov. 1908; m., ?b
Feb. 19UL, In Washington, D. C., K. H.
Muehlatedt of Long Beach, California.

(?) Alberta 0. Gambell , b. L Oct. 1913; m«,

31 Aug. 1938, Leonard Castle. One child
is Betsey Lynn Castle9, b. 1? Feb. 19b?.
(10) Dmighter^, unnamed. Died in infancy.

Aiwrlcft Ellx.bcth Ell«r6, b., 10 April 1CW, In Wllk..
Co., N, C.j d., ?1 April 19?5, in Clay Co., Nebr.;
m., L June 1868, Abraham C. Fisher, b.f ?9 July 18L5,
at Srqrma, Ohio; d., 19 Nov. 1915, on his far* loca¬
ted near Harvard, Nebr.

Children:

(1) John E. Fisher*^, b. 26 Jan* 1870; m., k April
1895, Ada May Troyer, b. July 1875* Lived
first at Harvard, Nebr. and later in St*
Lawrence, Hand Co., South Dakota*

Children:

(1) Myrtle Viola Fisher , b. 11 March 1896; m.

Carl Auderberg. Children, (1) Ila May
Auderberg^; (2) Gila Auderberg^.

(2) Ethyln Elvira Fisher®, b. 2h Nov. 1898; m.

Arthur Auderberg. Children, (1) Alvin
Auderberg^; (2) Lucile Auderberg^; (3)
Archie Auderberg^; (U ) Ilene Auderberg^;

(5) Iva Jene Auderberg^.

(3) Harold Edman Fisher®, b. 15 Jan. 1900; m.

1st., Esther Dehart, and m,, 2nd.,
Margaret Knagle. Children by first wife,
(1) lone Fisher^; (2) Eugene Fisher^.
Children by second wife, (3) Mildred
Fisher^; (h) Thelma Fisher^.

(h) lone Frances Fisher®, b. 22 Feb. 1902; d.

Hi April 1902.

(5) Leta Jane Fisher®, b. 2 July 190li; m., 2li

Dec. 1921, Rev. John Herman. Children,

(1) Thelma Jane Herman^, d. in infancy;

(2) John Richard Herman^; (3) Ruth Evelyn
Herman.

(6) Virgil Irving Fisher®, b., 5 Aug. 1906, at

Trumbull, Clay Co., Nebr.; m. Frances
Parker. One child is Deloris Fisher^.

(7) Gladys Verna Fisher®, b. 18 Dec. 1908 at

St* Lawrence, So. Dakota; m. Archie
Jenner. Three children are, (1) Irving
Jenner^; (2) Lois Jenner^; (3) Merlyn
Jenner^.

(8) Jene vie ve Elizabeth Fisher®, b., 30 April

1910, at St. Lawrence, Hand Co., South
Dakota; m. Edwin Jenner. Six children
are, (1) Raymond Jenner^; (2) Thelma
Jenner0; (3) Evelyn Jenner^; (U) Merle

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Jenner ; (5) Rofrer Jenner ; (6) Donna
o

Marie Jenner .

(9) Namoni Mna Fisher , b. 19 Feb. 191!*; m.

Harry King. Two children are, (1) Arnold
King0; (2) Phyllis King0.

(10) Kyra Kay Fisher , b. 20 April 1917; m. Lyle
Eru later. One child is Gerald Eru later0.

(2) Effie Jane Fisher^, b., 8 Oct. 1871, in Jefferson

Co*, Iowa; d. 19 May 1931; m., 1 July 1890,
Thomas Roe McDowell, b. 20 Sept. 186!* ; d. 1935.

Childrens

(1) Clarence Abraham McDowell , b. 17 Oct. 189!*;

m., 1 June 1921, at Inland, Nebr., Gladys
Viola Wittnerse house, b., 9 April 1901,
at Bertrand, Nebr. Six children are, (1)
Emnet Neil McDowell0, b. 8 Dec. 19?2, at
Bertrand, Nebr,; (2) Loie Edna McDowell0,
b,, 28 April 1929, at Harvard, Nebr,;

(3) Robert Dale McDowell0, b., 26 Aug.
1926, at Harvard, Nebr.; (!*) Donna Lee
McDowell0, b. 22 Nov. 1930, at Harvard,
Nebr,; (9) Leland LeRoy McDowell0, b.,

16 June 193!*, at Trumbull, Nebr.; (6)

Kay Bernice McDowell0, b, 22 July 19j*l,
at Hastings, Nebr,

(2) Royal Thomas McDowell^, b. 20 Nov. 1900;

d. 2*> May 1919.

(3) Harvey Lwmmtt McDowell , b., 3 July 1903,

at Smithfield, Nebr., pi., 1 Aug. 1937,
Margarete Gertrude Sandstrom, b. 17 March
190!*, He is a dental surgeon. He served
far a time in the Veteran's Hospital at
Johnson City, Tenn,

(3) George Joeeph Fisher', b. , U July 1876, at Sutton,

Nebr.; d., 10 April 1929, at Harvard, Nebr.;
m. Gertrude Carrie Carson, b., in Nebr,, 9 Sept.
1879.

Childrens

(1) I la Fisher^.

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(2) Merle Fisher .

(3) Irene Fisher®.
Lett a Fisher®

Cli)

(5)

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Chester Fisher
(U ) Charles Samuel Fisher^, b., 26 Jan. 1879, at
Trumbull, Nebr.; d., 12 May 1951, at Temple
City, California,

(5) Jessie May Fisher^, b. Ill April 1888; m., 11 Feb,
1909, Clyde LeRoy Fiscus, b. 21 Jan. 1888,
Family lives in Hastings, Nebr,

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Children:

(1) Fern Ileen Fiscus^, b, 10 Nov. 1909; m.,

5 June 1931, Raymond Dougherty, Three
of their children are (1) Glen Ray
Dougherty^, b. 3 April 1937; (2) Carol
Jean Daugherty^, b, 3 Aug. 19U3; (3)
Sharon Ann Daugherty^, b, 5 Nov. 19U5#

(2) Adeline Lucille Fiscus®, b. 25 May 1916;

m., h June 1936, Levem Johnson. Family
lives in Calif. One child is Leatha Kay
Johnson^5, b. 19 March 19U0.

(3) Eva Laurene Fiscus®, b. 29 June 1918. Un¬

married. g

(I4) Fauna Faye Fiscus , b. 27 Dec. 1925; d. 2h
June 1926.

(5) Vern LaMoine Fiscus , b. 29 Feb, 1928; m.,

27 April 19U7 • Two children are, (1)
Allen James Fiscus^, b. 28 Dec. 191:7;

(2) Daryl Vernon Fiscus^, b. 20 Dec,
19h9.

(6) Gale LeRoy Fiscus , b. 16 Oct. 1931* He

was in the U.S. military service in Eng¬
land in 1953 and engaged at that time to
marry Patricia Louise Patterson, b. 25
Sept. 1931 in Nebraska.

(5) Sophronie Caroline Eller^, b., 2 April 1852, in Wilkes
Co., N. C.; d., 9 March 191:3, at Fairfield, Iowa,

She m., 20 Aug. 1876, Payton Monroe Colvard, b.f 6
July 18Ua, in N. C.; d., 10 Sept. 1893, in Clay Co.,

Nebr. Family lived in Clay Co., Nebr.

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Children!

(1) Fred Colvard , b. 13 July 1677; d. 1936; m., 16
May 1697, Mariam Strother*

Children: ^

(1) Robert Payton Colvard , d. 19ii2. He mar¬

ried and was father of a son, name not
found* g

(2) Royal Fred Colvard . He married and was

father of ore boy and one girl.

(3) Mildred Colvard®, m. ftifus Fisher* Their

children were Carol Fisher5 and Martha
Fisher0.

(2) Phebe Jane Colvard^, b. 29 Sept. 1678; a., 17
Jan. 1906, David V. Caldwell of Fairfield,
Jefferson Co., Iowa.

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Children:

( 1) Marie Caldwell , b. 8 Jan. 1907; d. 5 May

1909.

(2) Eva (Anna) May Caldwell , b. 26 Sept. 1908.

She lived at Chicago, Ill.

(3) Marrts Wilford Caldwell°, b. 26 March 1910;

m., 31 July 19^0, Carabell Dyers. Family
lived at Gowanda, N. T.

(M Maude Louis Caldwell°, b. 12 Feb. 1912; m.,
20 Oct. 1Q3?, J. . arrell. Family

lives in Texas.

(5) Helen Eletha Caldwell®, b. 19 Sept. 1913;

m., L Oct. 1929, Olan Cooper. Family
lived in Hartley, Iowa. Two of their
children are, (1) Jerry Cooper9, b. U
April 1936, and (2) Jack Cooper0, b. 22
July 1936.

(6) Bruce Arlo Caldwell®, b. 9 June 1916; m.,

22 June 19^2, Rose Morme. Family lived
in Hollywood, California.

(3) Jesse Allen Colvard^, b. 13 May 1881 ; m., 6 May
1903 9 Anna May Walker.

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Children:

(1) Bert Colvard , b. 26 Feb. 190lu

(2) Paul Colvard®, b. 1 Jan. 1906.

(3) Verla Colvard , b. Oct. 1907.

(h) Dorothea Colvard®, b« Jan. 1910.

(S) Jack Colvard®, b. July 1911# He married
and lived in Denver, Colorado.

(h) Edward (Eddie) Colvard?, b* 18 May 1882; d. IS
Sept. 1882.

(5) Carl S. Colvard7, b. 20 June 1883; d. 25 May 1897.

(6) Anna May Colvard7, b. llj May 1887; d. 13 Oct.

1937; m., 3 July 19 Oil, Claude W. Brown.

Children:

(1) Georgie Beatrice Brown , b. 17 Jan. 1906;

m. , 31 March 1928, Clarence A. Teagarden.
One child is Clarence Slaude Teagarden^,
b. 28 Oct. 193U.

(2) Chester Arlington Brown , b. 2h March 1908;

m., 1928, Hazel E. Eugman. Two children
are, ( 1) John Elizabeth Brown^, and (2)
Chester Arlington Brown Jr.^

(3) Gladys Pearl Brown®, b. 3 Jan. 1910; m. ,

11 May 1931, Carl Y. Kelsey. One child
is Kenneth Lee Kelsey^, b. 10 March 19U3#
(U) Marjorie Edith Brown®, b. 10 Jan. 1915; m. ,
1935, Howard A. Petrie. One child is
Carolyn Sue Petrie , b. 26 Jan. 1937.

(6) Charles Thomas Eller^, b. , h March 1858, in Jefferson
Co., leva; d., 12 Jan. 1910, at Long Beach, Calif.

He married, 16 March 1881, Flora Nina Randall, b. 10
May 1861:, at Lockport, New York; d. 10 March 191:0 in
Long Branch, California. She was a dau. of Joshua J.
and Elizabeth Randall, who emigrated to N, Y* State
from London, England. Charles Thomas Eller removed
from Wapello Co., Iowa to Clay Co., Nebr. in 1873
where he was married. In 1886 he removed farther
west to McCook, Redwillow Co., Nebr. and in 1897 moved
still farther west to Long Beach, Calif. He was a
staunch friend of the late Senator from Nebr., George

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W. Norris and, when living In McCook, Nebr,, actively
assisted hi* in his early campaigns for public office.

Children!

(1) Ernest Welber Eller^, b., 1681, In Clay Co,,

Nebr, 5 d., 1936, in Spokane, Washington. He
married and first lived in Hilrose, Colorado,

He was an architect by profession and manager
for many years of a large lumber comparer at
Butte, Montana, In 1931 he removed to Newman
Lake, Washington, The n.imes of his wife and
5 sons and 1 dau, were not found,

(2) Mildred Lillian Eller", b., It March 1681t, In

Clay Co,, Nebr,, n, 1st,, 1907, G. B. Wolford,
M. D. ; m, , ?nd«, John E, Weaver and lived in
Bakersfield, Calif.

Child by 1st, marriage:

(1) Florence Delight Wolford, b«, Aug, 1912;
m, Earl H, Pense, Family lives in
Berkley, Calif,

(3) Orlando Sydney Eller^, b., 19 April 1686, in

Clay Co., Nebr,, m, Bertha, surname not found.
Family lives in Long Branch, Calif, There
were no children,

(7) Mary T. Eller^, b., 18 May 1861, in Jefferson Co,,

Iowa; d. 29 Aug, 1663,

(8) Jesse Franklin Eller^, b., 1L May 1669, in Jefferson

Co,, Iowa; d., 30 Aug, l^liO, at Ventura, Calif,; m«,
16 March l6fl6, at Harvard, Nebr,, Mary Addle Gray,
b., 17 Nov, 1667, at Hartford, Washington Co,, N. T.
(another record says b, at Gloversville, N. Y,).

She d,, 9 Dec, 19lil, st Simi, Ventura Co,, Calif,

He was a farmer first in Clay County, Nebr, and later
in Merced Co,, Calif, When his health failed he
spent most of his time at Simi, Calif, where two of
his sons lived.

Children:

(1) Earl Eller^, b., 30 Nov, 1J886, in Clay Co., Nebr.;

d. 1 April 1887.

(2) Roy Wellington Eller^, b. , 8 Dec. 1887, in Clay

Co., Nebr. Still living, 1956, at Monrovia,
Calif. He married 1st,, 9 June 19 15, at Los
Angeles, Calif., Edith Sheldon, b., 12 Jan.

188U, at Westfield, N. Y. ; d., 3 Jan. 1931, at
Monrovia, Calif. He m. 2nd., 22 July 1937
Marjorie Dayton Hitchcock, b. 18 Nov* 1896 at
Watertown, Conn.; d., 2 Nov. 195U. She re¬
ceived a Master1 s Degree from Cornell Univ. in
N. Y. State and taught in the Monrovia, Calif,
schools for 26 years. He m. 3rd., late sum¬
mer of 1955, Mrs. Mary Merle (Eller) Rollins,
dau. of Jacob Eller^ (Harvey^, Simeon^, John3,
Peter^, George Michael^-) and his wife Bertha
Athey of Clay Center, Clay Co., Nebr. Roy
Wellington Eller is a retired teacher. He
received his education in the schools of Nebr.
and Los Angeles, Calif. He taught schools in
Clay Center, Nebr. and later at San Jacinto,
Hemet and Monrovia, Calif.

Children, all by first marriage, are:

(1) Sheldon Charles Eller®, b., 20 Nov, 1916,

at San Jacinto, Calif.; m., 15 June 191*2,
Jesse Elizabeth Spencer, b., 8 March
1913, at Monrovia, Calif. Both are
teachers in the public schools. He is a
veteran of World War II. They have two
adopted children, (1) Mark Laurence, b.

30 Sept. 191*8 and (2) Jan Edith, b. 2l*
Jan. 19 51. q

(2) Charleen Elizabeth Eller , b., 2h Feb, 1921,

at Hemet, Calif.; m., 17 Aug. 191*6, at
Laguna Beach, Calif,, Karl McKee Mercer,
b*, 10 Feb, 1918, at Alexandria, Indiana.
Four of their children, all born at Long
Beach, Calif, are, (1) Bret Thomas
Mercer?, b. 28 Oct. 19U9 ; (2) Keith Bar¬
clay Mercer?, b. 21 March 1951; (3) Ralph

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Leslie Mercer^, b. 5 June 1952; (li) Lau¬
rie Christine Mercer0, b. 5 March 19 51*.
(3) Herman Leslie Eller^, b., 23 June 1889, in Clay
Co., Nebr.; d. 10 Oct. 1936 at Simi, Calif.

He ra., 1st., 1 Jan. 1911, at Harvard, Nebr.,
Flora Seiko, b., 1889, at Harvard, Nebr.; d.,
April 1913, in Loveland, Colorado. He m., 2nd.
10 Dec. 1913, at Loveland, Colorado, Miss
Florence Anna Hollis, b., 17 Feb. 1892, at
Vanz&nt, Texas. After her husband's death she
married again, Rosser Thomson.

Children by 1st. marriage:

(1) Roger Verne Eller®, b. April 1912, at

Harvard, Nebr.; d., Feb. 1913, at Love¬
land, Colorado.

Children by 2nd. marriage:

(2) Jesse Daniel Eller®, b. , 5 March 1918, at

Merced, Calif.; 29 June 19U3 » at
Grand Forks, North Dakota, Phyllis
Shields, b., 6 May 1921, at Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Both are teachers.
They live at Tulare, Calif. He was a
pilot in the air forces in World War II.
Three of their children are, (1) Judith
Lea Eller0, b., 1L Jan. 191*5, at Compton,
Calif. ; (?) John Leslie Eller*, b. ?1
Sept. 191*6, at Tulare, Calif.; (3) Mark
Alexander Eller^, b., 5 July 1951, at
Tulare, Calif.

(3) Byron Harley Eller , b., 2ti Dec. 1921, at

Merced, Calif.; m., Aug. 191*7, at Glen¬
dale, Calif., Dorothy Lashier, b., 2 June
1923* at Sutherlin, Oregon. She is a
trained nurse. He is a pharmacist, a
medical school graduate and served as a
pharmacist mate In World War II. He is
a practicing physician in Casservllle,
Missouri. Two of their children are,

(1) Rebecca Ann Eller^, b. 1 Feb. 1950,
at Glendale, Calif.; (2) Diana Marlene

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Eller , b. 1 Jan. 1952, at Denver,
Colorado.

(k) Wilma Deloris Eller^, b., 7 July 1923, at

Merced, Calif.; m., 22 Aug. 19k3, at
Glendale, Calif., Robert Shepard, b.,

22 Sept. 1921, at Poona, India. He is
an ordained minister. He and his wife
are serving, 1953, as missionaries in
India. Two of their children are, (1)
Kathleen Sharon Shepard^, b., lb Aug,
1915, in Washington, D. C.; (2) Cecelia
Ann Shepard^, b., 1 Jan. 19k7, in India,
(10 Almina E. (Allie) Eller7, b. 23 Nov. 1891; d.,

26 Aug. 1892, near Trumbull, Clay Co., Nebr.

(5) Hazel Bell Eller7, b. 7 Jan, 1893; d., lit May

1893, in Clay Co., Nebr.

(6) Mary Grace Eller7, b., 23 Aug. 1895, near the

town of Batavia, Jefferson Co., Iowa; m., 17
Feb. 1926, at Merced, Calif, as his second
wife, Grover Cleveland Clary, b., 18 July 1886,
at Western, Salina Co., Nebr.; d., 7 Oct. 19k7,
at Loveland, Colorado. There were no children
bora to this marriage. The first wife of
Grover Cleveland Clary was Martha Rosebella
Hollis, b., 1 Sept. 1890, at Vanzant, Texas,
whom he married, at Fort Cobb, Okla., 16 May
1909. She died, 21 Oct. 1921, at Loveland*
Calif. She was a sister of Florence Anna
Hollis who was the second wife of Herman
Leslie Eller7, shown above.

The children of Grover Cleveland Clary and his
first wife, Martha Rosebella Hollis, were:

(l) Ozella Annis Clary^, b., 19 April 1910, at

Loveland, Colorado; m., 16 July 1928, at
Merced, Calif., Elton Miller, b., 28 Dec.
1908, at Loveland, Colorado. Three of
their children, all born at or near Love¬
land, Colorado, were (1) Phyllis May
Miller, b. 30 May 1930; (2) Ralph Eugene
Miller, b. 23 Feb. 193k; d. 17 June 1935;

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(3) Doris Nadene Miller, b. 30 March
1938.

(2) Glen Paul Clary, b., 1 Oct. 1911, at Love¬

land, Colorado; m., at Simi, Calif., 5
Dec. 1^39, Elvira Schnits, b., 6 Oct.
1911, at Simi, Calif. Four of their
children are, (1) Lloyd Glenden Clary,
b., 1 March 1937, at Simi, Calif.; (2)
Roberta Ann Clary, b., 6 Dec. 19L0, at
Simi, Calif.; (3) Laurel Lee Clary, b.,
28 Sept. 19L3, at Selma, Calif.; (U)
Linda Joyce Clary, b. L Aug. 19li5, at
Selma, Calif.

(3) Lloyd Earl Clary”, b., U Noe. 1913, at

Loveland, Colorado; d., 19 June 192L,
at Bakersfield, Calif.

(I*) Thelma Doris Clary®, b., 3 May 1917, at

Loveland, Colorado; m., 21 Nov. 1936, at
Simi, Calif., Arthur Eugene Weister, b.
1L Jan. 1917. Three of their children
are, (1) Keitha Irene Weister, b., 16
Dec. 1^37, at Glendale, Calif.; (2)
Lowell Clary Weister, b. , lit June 19b0,
at Ventura, Calif.; (3) Norman Lee
'Weister, b. , 29 Nov. 19Ui, at Grants
Pass, Oregon.

(7) John Alvin Eller^, b., 8 Sept. 1*>06, in Clay

County, Nebr. He is a talented musician. He
lives at Simi, Calif. Never married.

(9) Joseph Judson Eller^, b., 2li Dec. 1071, at Martins-

burg, Keokuk Co., Iowa; d., 21 Oct. 19L6, at Trent-
wood, Washington. He m., 1898, at Chesterdale,
Colorado, Martha Ann Crawford, b. 16 March 1870.

Childrens

(1) Jack Leroy Eller^, b., 26 Jan. 1907, at Five
Mile Prairie, Washington; m., 17 June 1929,
Lillian Isabella Penniman, b. 15 May 1907.

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Children:

(1) Cecil Jack Elleru, b. 6 Jan. 1930.

(2) Genevieve Lillian Eller®, b, 7 June 1931;

m., 12 Aug. 19ii8, Virgil Paul Gunderson,
b., 29 April 1931. Two of their child¬
ren are, (1) Linda Jean Gunderson?, b.

7 June 19^9; (2) Ronald Lee Gunderson?,
b. 21 Sept. 1951.

(3) Jacqueline Lee Eller®, b. 25 May 1933; m.

10 June 1951, Russel Anthony Jerred, b.
15 May 1932. One of their children is
Catherine Jene Jerred?, b. 10 July 1952.
(U) Patricia Lois Eller®, b. 7 July 1936; m,,
19 April 1952, Ronald Floyd Meek, b. 19
Pec. 1933. One child is Karen Louise
Meek9, b. U Oct. 1952.

(5) Winnifred Anne Eller®, b. 3 Jan. 19l*2.

(2) James Rolland Eller^, b., 23 June 1909, in Trent

wood, Washington; m, Dorothy Penniman.

(3) Audrey Mae Eller^, b., h July 1912, in Trentwood

Washington; m., 1936, Carl E. Nelson.

Children:

(1) Larry Nelson , b. 1937.

(2) Bobby James Nelson®, b. 1939.

JAMES ELLER

Son of Simeon Eller, Family XII, p. 177 herein.

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FAMILY XV

JAMES ELLERC, (Simeon^, John\ Peter?, George Michael1)
was bom in Wilkes County, North Carolina 28 (29) June 1927
and died, in his <>9th year, at his plantation near 9ina
(Berlin), Ashe County, North Carolina, 19 March 1926. He
married, ?U Oct. 18L9, (licence dated 6 Oct. 19L9 in Wilkes
Co., N. C.), Mary Ann Carlton, b. 19 Aug. 1830; d. 30 Aug.
192li. Had she lived another two months she and her husband
would have celebrated the 79th anniversary of their wedding.
She was a daughter of Thorns Carlton, Esc*iire, of beaver
Creek in Wilkes County. The family lived on their farm sone
six miles north west of North Wilkesboro until 1869 when
they removed to the farm that they occupied the remainder
of their lives located near the junction of Horse Creek
with the North Fork of New River in Ashe County. It was a
oeautiful farm nestled in a fertile valley in the heart of
the Blue Ridge Mountains and bordered in places cy the north
fork of New River that meanders its turbulant way northward
to the Great Kanawha in Virginia. He had been rejected for
military service in the Confederate Army because of ill
health but was delegated by the State to distribute supplies
to the families of Wilkes County soldiers who w*re in active
service. As the war period advanced and supplies became
more and more scarce the task of assembling, guarding and
distributing them became very difficult, heserters from the
Army and unprincipled mountaineers bent on getting food and
supplies from ary source formed organised bands of "bush¬
whackers" or "auerrlllaa" and pillaged his home repeatedly.
His life an* that of his wife and children were threatened
time after time and but for the courage and devotion of a
slave in the family who refused, by skillful artifice, to
reveal the family’s whereabouts, his life was saved. On
several occasions this devoted slave kept twelve muskets
firing into the woods in a manner to indicate that more
than one person was firing them, thus driving the attackers
away« When the war ended Mr. Eller declared his unwilling¬
ness longer to live among men who had been so disregardful
of cowaon decency and respect for their neighbors. He sold

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his farm and moved to Ashe County.

Mr. and Mrs, Eller were devoted members of the Baptist
Church, He was president of the convention that organized
the New Baptist Association, He also was one of the organ¬
izers of the Ashe and Allegheny Baptist Association and
served as its vice president. He was a member of the State
Board of Missions and Moderator of the Ashe and Allegheny
Association, 1898-1900, Despite the lack of educational
facilities in the places where they lived Mr, and Mrs. Eller
became the principal early teachers of their children all
of whom were later sent away to school and four of whom made
enviable records in college. Extracts from a biography of
two of their sons, Franklin Plato and John Carlton Eller,
written by the latter1 s nephew, Jay B, Hubbell and pub¬
lished in 1910 reveal much about the character of these
parents and the efforts they made to educate their child¬
ren in the face of great obstacles,

"The greatest desire of Mr, Eller and his wife, in
striking contrast with the parental ambitions of most
of their neighbors was to see their children all well
educated. In the * hard times* which followed the war
this was an undertaking of greatest difficulty. We
who live at a time when any young man of intelligence
and determination can educate himself do not realize
how difficult it actually was. A long and bitter war,
leaving devastation and ruin in its wake, had Just
closed only to be followed by the black era of recon¬
struction, which blighted the hopes of the brave people
for a speedy recovery from the effects of the War and
almost impoverished the state. The state system of
public schools was one of the poorlst in the Union,
Schools of every description from the public school to
the university, were few, inefficient and expensive.

It was almost impossible for the average young man to
obtain either the money or the preparation necessary
to enter a school of high standing. This was especial¬
ly true of the mountain section in which Mr. Eller
lived. His own health was very poor. His home was
forty five miles from the nearest railroad; and it was
only with the greatest difficulty that farm products

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could be hauled over the rough mountain roads to a
market."

"Others would have given up; it was not so with him
and his devoted wife. By his own efforts, aided by the
assistance of an intelligent father, he had in a meas¬
ure made amends for the lack of a systematic education
in himself; and this enabled him to direct his children
in their studies at home. Being an intelligent and
discriminating reader himself, he encouraged them to
read not many books, but good books and to read care¬
fully and thoughtfully."

"His only daughter Ruth, (since married to D. S.
Hubbell, a Baptist Minister of Virginia), was sent for
a year to a boarding school and then to a woman's
college in Bristol; and she in turn, stimulated and
directed the intellectual aspirations of her younger
brothers. All of the ooys were sent off to school,
most of them to Moravian Falls Academy, near Wilkes-
boro; but since it was impossible that all of them
should go to college, three, Augustus, Sidney and
Cicero voluntarily rellnouished their desires for a
university education and turned their attention to
business and practical affairs that others might have
the opportunities which could not be given to all."

This writer visited Mr. Eller in May of 1925 and ob¬
tained from him m/irjy facts about his life that confirms all
that Mr, Hibte 11 wrote above. He was still living in the
family home at Bina and at the dinner table that evening
sat at its head, and after grace, got reports from his two
sons Harvey Augustus and Edwin Cicero, who also were present
with their wives, of the work progress on the large farms
they were tending. His mind was clear, his voice strong
and his sense of humor fully alive. It was an experience
for this writer that he shall always remember and cherish.

The children of James Eller and his wife Mary Ann
Carlton were: (Records supplied by members of the family.)

(1) Martha Catherine Ell.r6, b. 2li Feb. 1851 i d. 10 Kay

1862.

(2) Thomas Hamilton Eller6, b. 18 No*. 1852; d. 6 May 1862.

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(3)

U)

Phineas Eller , b. 1891*; died young. (Census)

Harvey Augustus Eller , b. in Wilkes Co., N. C. 7 July
18 *5^; d. on his farm near Bina, N, C., 2 Jan. 19U6 .

He m., lb Oct. 1877, Mary Eller ^ b. 1* March 1896; d,

9 July 191*6. She was a dau. of David Eller'’, (Jacob^,
John^, Peter^, George Michael^) and his wife Katherine
Baker. He attended Moravian Falls Academy. He was
the mainstay of his father at the home farm and after
his marriage engaged in farming and stock raising
near Bina. (Then called Berlin, in Ashe Co.) He
served as chairman of the Ashe Co. Court and held
other positions of trust in his community.

Children:

(1) Bertha Ruth Eller?, b. 6 June 1879. She did not

marry.

(2) Walter Frederick Eller?, b. 3 April 1881; m., 10

Sept. 1917, 4drienne Trice Phillips, Family
lived in Washington, D. C. where he was en¬
gaged in the real estate business.

(3) Joseph Oscal Eller?, b. 20 Feb. 1883. He was

engaged in the real estate business in Raleigh,
N. C.

(1*) Nannie Clyde Eller?, b. 12 July 1889; m., 16

July 1013, Thomas Graybeal. He was a practic¬
ing lawyer in Buena Vista, Va. Of issue was
a son (l) William Eller Graybeal®.

(9) Henrietta Virginia Eller?, b. 19 May 1887.

(6) Jesse Franklin Eller?, b. 19 Feb, 1890.

(7) Martha Gertrude Eller?, b. 13 Jan. 1892; m. , 26

Jan. 1922, Fred L. Waddell.

(9) Ruth America Eller^, b. 6 Dec. 1897; m., 21* April 1881*,
Rev, David Sheldon Hubbell, a Baptist Minister of
Smyth Co., Va. Family resided, 1929, on a farm near
Mountain Park in Surrey Co., N. C.

Children:

(1) Jay Broadus Hubbell^, b. 8 May 1889 in Smyth Co.,
Va. He is now, 1999, living at EHirham, N. C.
as professor of American Literature at Duke

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University* He married, 1 June 1918, Lucinda
Smith* He graduated A*B* from the Univ* of
Richmond in 1905 and received his Master of
Arts degree from Harvard Univ, in 1900, and his
Ph,D from Columbia Univ. in 1922. Southern
Methodist Univ* awarded him the Litt, 0 degree
in 1951* He has had a distinguished career as
a teacher, first at Bethel College at Hopkins¬
ville, Ky., next at the Univ. of Worth Carolina
at Chanel Hill, then at Wake Forest, Worth
Carolina, then at Southern Methodist Univ*, at
Dellas, Texas, and after 1921 as professor of
English and Director of Gradate Studies in
English at Duke Univ. He served as advisor to
the secretary of the U. S. Army in Vienna and
as visiting professor Am. Litt. at the Univ, of
Vienna in 19L9 and as Fulbrlght Prof, of Am*
Litt. at the Univ. of Athens, Greece in 1953 •

In 1910 he wrote a 2is3 page book memorialising
the distinguished college careers of two of his
deceased Eller uncles whose deaths from typhoid
brought those careers to an untimely end. See
"kho's Who in America," Vol. 20, for a more
complete record of the career ar.d achievements
of Jsy B. Hubbell.

Children:

(1) Jay Broadua Hub be 11 Jr.

(2) D.tI'1 Sr.lt h Hubb.Ufl.

(2) Eller Hubb.11^, died young.

(3) Paul Eller Hub be 11 , a. Huna Thompson and re¬

sided in Tpsllantl, “ichignn. He was a Rhodes
Scholar and a veteran of Worl* War I. He was

a college teacher*

(li) Ruth Hubbell?. She was a college teacher.
Resided in Bristol, Tennessee*

Adolphua Hill Ell./, b. , in Wllk.e Co., N. C. ; 9 April
1861; d. in Vinaton-cslem, N. C., 7 Dec. l^l»l . He
married, 20 Wov. 1896, Laura W. Newlanda, d. 28 May
1038, dau. of Capt. B. A. Npwland. He attended

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Moravian Falls Academy and in 1881 entered the Univ.
of N. C. from which he graduated, with an A. B.
degree, in 1885. He then attended Folks Law School
at Cilly, N. C. and was admitted to the N. C. bar in
1886. He practiced law in Winston-Salem, N. C. under
the firm name of Eller and Starbuck. In 1905 he
became Secy, Treas. of the N. C, R. R. and remained
in that position until 1913 when he became V. P. and
Chairman of the Tiust ^pt, of the Wachovia Bank and
Trust Co. of Winston-Salem, In 1908 he organized
and became president of the Standard Building and
Loan Association. He was elected to the N. C. State
Senate 1905 and from 1908 to 1912 was Chairman of
the N. C, State Democratic Commission, He was a
trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1905-
1933 and Chairman of the Winston-Salem Board of
Education 1927-1933 « He was Secy and Trustee of the
Winston-Salem State Teacher's College for negroes
for 30 years and one of the founders of the N. C,
Baptist Hospital. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon College Fraternity, a member of the Masonic
Lodge and of the Baptist Church, (See ”WhoTs Who in
America" 7ols, 20 and 21.)

Children:

7

(1) Mary Eller , died young,

(2) John DeWalden Eller^, He is married and has a

son, James Carlton Eller^, b, 6 Jan, 1931.

(3) Adolphus Hill Eller Jr,

(7) Albert Sidney Johnson Eller^, b., in Wilkes Co., N. C.,
29 Aug. 1861:; d., in Ashe Co,, N. C., 9 Feb. 1920.

He married, 1st., 19 Sept. 1889, Laura McMillan, b,

16 Aug. 1861; d. 26 July 1908. He married 2nd,,
Frances Campbell. After attending the Moravian Falls
Academy he returned to Bina in Ashe County and re¬
sumed fanning. He held various public offices and
from 1902 to 1910 served as Clerk of the Superior
Court of Ashe Co.

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Children by 1st. marriage i

(1) Carlton Reeves Eller , m. Grace Sturgil.

(2) Anna Agnes Eller , n. Frank R. Jones.

(3) Beatrice Eller % ». Cicero Faw. Children, (1)

Qwin Faw®; (2) Stella Faw®; (3) In* Fair j (U)
Lenna Faw°.

(li) Mack Eller7, m. Hetta Stansberry (Standeberry ).
(*) Alton S. Eller7.

Children by 2nd. marriage.

(6) Bryan Eller7.

Edwin Cicero Eller*, b.v in Ashe Co. , N. C.j 19 Dec,
1066; m. let., 22 May Laura Catherine Graybeal

b. 8 May 1°71; U ?3 Dec. 1920. He m. 2r I . , 20 Apr.
1921a, Susanna Harless. He attended Moravian Falls
A cade ay . He was a merchant and farmer at Bina in
Ashe County, North Carolina.

Children oy 1st. marriage:

(1) Ina Mmide Eller7, n. Fred Fields. The family

lived in Allegheny Co., N. C. where it was
engaged in farming and stock raising. Child¬
ren, (1) Ruby Fielder (2) Horace Fields®.

(2) Edwin Cicero Eller, Jr.7, m. Ethel Eller.

Family lived on a farm at Lansing, Ashe Co*.

N. C. One child is, (1) Morris Edwin Eller®.

(3) Grace Graybeal Eller7, m. Jack Rhodes. He was

a merchant in North Wilkesboro, S. C. Two of
their children are, (1) Doris Rhodes0, and
(2) J(M« Pho-I.a0.

(ti) 0L»dy» Ellor7, ■. R. Tipton McNl.l, son of
Thornton McNiel.

(5) James Eller7, m. Hetta Goss.

(6) Pansy ElUr7, b. 7 Hot. 1<>06» d. 2 May

(7) Paul EUsr7.

Children cy 2nd. marriage:

(8) William Truett Eller7, b. 26 Feb. 1925; m.

Dorothy Reed.

(9) Franklin Plato Eller , b., in Ashe Co,, N. C., h April

1869; d. of typhoid, 15 June 1892, just as he had
finished his Junior year in the Univ. of North Caro¬
lina. He was a brilliant young man who, during his
three years as a student, was awarded almost all the
honors that his class and the college could give. He
was president of his class for three years. He repre
sented the Dialectic Society in inter-society debate
twice. He was president of the society. He was edi¬
tor of the Univ. magazine. He won the Best Debater
Medal in the Dialectic Soc. in his sophomore year, an
honor that previously had been contested for only by
juniors and seniors. He was acclaimed by some of his
teachers as one of the most promising young men who
ever had attended the Univ. prior to his time. (See
Memorial Book, 2U5 pages, to him and his younger
brother John Carlton Eller who died in college of the
same dread disease, written by their nephew, Jay B.
Hubbell in 1910.)

(10) John Carlton Eller^, b. in Ashe Co., N. C., 30 Oct.

1873; d. of typhoid, U July 1896, just as he had re¬
turned home after graduating magna cum laude from the
Univ. of North Carolina with the degree of Ph B. His
record in college fully equalled, if it did not sur¬
pass, that of his brilliant brother, Franklin Plato,
(supra). He was president of his class for four
years, editor of the "White and Blue" 189^-95; edi¬
tor of the "Tar Heel" in 1895-96; winner of under¬
graduate honors, each of the four years he was in
college; president of the Alpha Theta Phi Club;
president of the Philosophical Club; president of
the Shakespeare Club; president of the Historical
Society and president of the Dialectic Society. He
was sub. baseball manager in 1895 and member of the
advisory board of athletics in 1896. He was the
first honor man in his class with grades averageing
well above 90. His untimely death was a great blow
to the Univ. that had predicted for him a brilliant
career and to his parents who had hardly recovered
from the loss of another of their talented sons four
years earlier. (Ibid)

JESSE FRANKLIN ELLER

Youngest Son of Simeon Eller, Family XII, p. 177.

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FAMILY XVI ,

JESSE FRAWLIN ELLER’’, (SiaeorT, John , P»Ur2, George
Michael^) was born In Wilkes Co., N. C., 17 Hec. 1839; d. at
his hone near Atkins, Srythe Co., Va., 5 Nov. 1900. He mar¬
ried, 28 April 18*®, in Wilkes Co., N. C., Mary Ann Laxton,
b. 1 Jan. 18L0; d. lii Dec. l^O1*. He opposed secession in
1*61 but tdien, by popular vote, (May 17, 1°61), his native
state of North Carolina made its decision to secede he did
not hesitate to do what he conceived to be his duty as a
local citizen. He assisted in organizing what became Co. K
of the 93 N. C. Pegt., C.S.A. and was commissioned a First
Lieut. On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Capt.
Miller of his company was killed and he became captain. He
was severely wounded in the second day Battle of the Wilder¬
ness, May o, 1°6L, which sent him to the hospital, but aside
from that absence he served actively and contlmously with
his company in the Any of Northern Virginia, commanded by
General Robert E. Lee, until the end of the war and was with
his company at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to General
Grant.

In 1869 Cant. Eller moved with his family in a covered
wagon to Wapello Co., Iowa where his brothers Harvey, John
and William then lived. In 1872 in company with his broth¬
ers John and William he moved to Clay County, Nebr. where he
homesteaded a farm near the town of Harvard. 'Xirlng these
early Nebraska years he Joined other homesteaders in found¬
ing and building a small Baptist Church on the prairie. He
remained on his Nebraska farm until 1880 when he removed to
Ssyth Co., Virginia and settled on a farm near the village
of Atkins. Here he lived until his death, his obituary in
a local paper saying in part the following;

"He was an honest man and Just. His convictions
were strong and he was unbending in his adherence to
them. He was a devoted father, and his absorbing aim
in life was to inculcate, in his children, character,
and to leave them the priceless heritage of worthy ex¬
ample and an unblemished name. He professed the holy

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religion of Christ during the second year of the war,
and afterward united himself with the Baptist Church.

He has ever since been a zealous Christian worker in
his church. He was largely instrumental in organizing
and buildirg two churches. The latter years of his
life were attended by sore affliction and he has been,
during most of the time since, practically helpless.”

The children of Jesse Franklin Eller'’ and his wife,

Mary Ann Laxton, were as follow; (Family records supplied
by his granddaughter, Loula Mabel (Eller) Cahill and Marian
Carlton (Eller) Johnson and by his grandsons, Dr. Raymond
Eller Kirk and Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller.)

(1) Oscal Pulaski Eller^1, b., 28 July i860, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.; d. Nov. 19lil at or near Hastings, Nebr. He
married M. Eva Wright who died in 1925.

Children:

n

(1) Ralph Eller , no further record found.

(2) Ruth Eller^, no further record found.

(2) Virginia Eads Eller^, b., 2 Aug. 1862, in Wilkes Co.,

N. C.; d., 22 Jan. 19^3, at Bellefont, Penna.; m.,

21 Sept. 1881, in Snythe Co., Va. , Joseph Alexander
Kirk, b., 27 Oct. 1852, in Jefferson Co., Ohio; d.,

2 Oct. 1915, at Kearney, Nebr.

Their children were:

(1) James Earle Kirk^, b. 1883; m. , 1910, in Omaha,

Nebr., Louisa Jones. Family presently lives
in Miami, Florida. They have one daughter,
namely, (1) Laura Louise Kirk', b. 1912; m.
James Barrett and have sons, James Barrett^,
and Robert Barrett^.

(2) Mabel Eleanor Kirk^, b. 1888; d., unmarried, 2

Nov. 19U6 at State College, Penna. At time of
her death she was Prof, of Secondary Education
at Penna. State College.

(3) Raymond Eller Kirk^, b« 2h June 1890, in Hamilton

Co., Nebr.; d. 6 Feb. 1957; m., 30 June 1930,
Beth Sibley, b. 20 July 1990. Attended State

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Normal School at Kearney, Nebr. 1910-13 and
graduated from the Unlv. of Nebr. with the
degree of B.S. in 191$. He then attended Iowa
State College at Ames, Iowa receiving a M. S.
degree in 1917. Cornell Univ. at Ithlca, N. T.
awarded him a Ph.D degree in 1927. He was an
instructor in chemistry at Iowa State College
1917«lo?o and Asst. Prof, in chemistry at the
Unlv. of Minr. 19?0-19?7 an*4 Associate Prof.
19?7-1°?9. He then rercved to the Mont. State
College where he was head of the Dept* of
Chemistry arr* State Chemist 1929-1931. Since
1931 he has been head of the Dept, of Chemistry
of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
also Dean of the Graduate School of the Insti¬
tute since 19Ui. He served as civilian inspec¬
tor in the Ordnance Dept., U.S.A., 1917-1918.

He was a captain in the Ordnance Reserve 1923-
1930 and Major 1930-10 1*2. He belongs to an
imposing list of learned societies end is the
author and co-author of mary scientific articles
and treatises in chemistry. He lived in Brook¬
lyn, N. T. (See "Who's Who in America")

Their children were, (1) Virginia Kirk , b.,
lit June 1921, at Minneapolis, Minn.; m., 191*6,

0. A. (Bill) Mills, b. 190*1 ; 1. 1QC*. >")*

had one son, Richard Kirk Mills9, b. 10 Dec.

19li7 1 (2) Josephine Alvira FlrkP, b. 18 Oct.
19?3, Minreipolls, Minn., n. , 30 May 191*7,
Victor Komow and have two sans namely Nicholas
Komow9, b. May 19K2 and Anthony Komow9, b. 11
April 19r<;.

(b) M»ry Lucille Kirk', b. 10 F.b. 1P92: 6 Kj«y

19 ?0, Thomas Benjamin Bowman Jr. They have
three children, naswly, (1) Virginia Lucile
8«Mnl), b. 2b July 1921 j 27 Mo*. 19b3,

James Oliver You nee and have children, (a) James
Will las*. Younce9, b. 20 Oct. 191*6; (b) Kendra

A

Louise Younce , b. 26 July 191*9; (c) Susan Maxy
Younce9, b. ?8 April 19S3; (2) Kirk Benjamin

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g

Bowman , b. 23 April 1926; m., Hl Aug. 19b9,
Janice Ruth Skillstad and have children, (a)
Mary Elizabeth Bowman0, b. lb Jan. 1991 and
(b) Charles Benjamin Bowman^, b. 19 April 1992;
(3) Dorothy Joyce Bowman®, b. 3 June 1929; m.,
10 June 1991, Stanley Joe Iambert and have
children, (a) Franklin Kirk Lambert^, b, 18
April 1993 and (b) Timothy Carl Lambert^, b.

22 May 1999*

(5) Jesse Harold Kirk^, b. 21 June 1899; d. 7 Dec.

1919, and lies buried in the Arlington National
Cemetery in Washington, D. C. Most of his
adult life was spent in the U. S. Army. He had
no children*

(3) Junius Arthur Eller^, b., 20 April 1866, in Ashe Co.,

N. C.; d. 12 Jan. 19 91 in Smythe Co., Va.; m., 29
Aug. 1888, Georgia Caroline Johnson, b. 1 March 1872.
He was a merchandiser of farm machinery, fertilizer
and other farm supplies at Marion, Va. until the
early 1920’s retiring at that ime to his farm three
miles east of Marion, Va. where he lived the remain¬
der of his life. He was active in community affairs,
serving for sixteen years as chairman of the Board
of Supervisors in Smyth County and as chairman of the
Draft Board in World War II.

Children:

(1) Trulah Folsom Eller^, b. , 2 July 1889; d. 8 Sept.

1890.

(2) Loula Mabel Eller , b., 27 Jan. 1891; m. Edward

Francis Cahill of Penna., b. 12 Aug. 1892. He
is a veteran of World War I. No children.

(3) Ethel Joyce Eller^, b. 13 March 1893; m., 3 June

1915, Brackett Henry Snidow, b., 22 Nov. 1882*
He is an attorney at law at Pembroke, Va*

Their children were, (1) Virginia Joyce Snido*P,
b, 6 May 1916; d. 18 April 1938; she was a
graduate of Mary Washington College at Fred¬
ericksburg, Va. ; (2) Horace Eller Snidow®, b*

19 April 1919; m., 7 Aug. 1919, Elna Faye Law,

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b. 7 May 1921 at Charleston, Arkansas. He is
a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Insti¬
tute of Blacksburg, Va,; (3) Martha Carolyn
Snidov9, b., 8 July 1921, at Pembroke, va.; m.
Robert 5. Radspinner, a civil engineer of
Cincinnati. Ohio.

(U) tyrtle Eller , b. 23 April 1995; m., 29 March
1916, Frank Edvard Hash, b. 8 March 1893. He
is a farmer at Marion, Va. Their children are,
(1) Frank Edward Hash Jr.*, b. 21 Nov. 1917;
n., Ui Feb. 19hl, Mary Nell Mercer; (2) Donald
Willis Hash* , b. 10 Jan. 1920; 1 F«b. 19U1,

Harle Connor; (3) Charles Vance Hast/, b. 17
Oct. 1923 ; m., 6 June 19ii6, Sarah Jean Williams;
(li) Richard Cameron Hash°, b. 28 Oct. 1927;

9 Sept. 19li8^ Sara Jane Blevins; (5) Joseph
Clinton Hash , b. 12 Jan. 1°30; a., 2 Sept.
1938, Pauline Foti.

(5) Mary Elliabeth Eller^, b. fc June 1897; 12

Oct. 1921, Earle Tabor Walker Cronk of Pem¬
broke, Va., son of a Lutheran Minister. He is
an electrical engineer. Their children are,

(1) Shirley Madeline Cn nk , b. ?9 Nov. 1<*?2;
m. 16 Aug. 191*7 . William Wade Lorrick Jr., b.

1 Nov. 19?li, At Columbia, S. C. ; (?) Earle
David Cronk , b. 19 Oct. 1928; m., 30 April
1955, Mary Lou Crowder, b. 10 July 1931 at
Roanoke Rapids, X. C. He is a graduate of the
Professional Institute of Richmond, Va. ; (3)
Mary Elisabeth Cronk®, o. 10 Feb. 1931, at
Richmond, Va.; m. , 16 Dec. 1951, Wallace
Graham Lloyd, b. 21 July 1928, at Durham, N.C. ;
(li) Calvin Tabor Cronk°, b. , 5 March 19L0, at
Richmond, Va.

(6) Orsce Sll.r7, b. 23 Oct. ie99; 26 May l«3li,

Clyde E. fkirton of Kentucky. Their one child
was, (1) Clyde Eller Burton®, b. L July 1935.

(7) Junius Carlton Eller^, b. 30 July 1901; m., 8

Aug. 1925, Virginia Briscoe of Marion, Va, He
is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and presently is engaged in dairy faming at

Culpepper, Va. Their children are, (1) Ann
Carolyn Eller®, b. h Aug. 1926; m., 3 Nov* 19k8,
Robert Warren Ector of New Jersey. She is a
graduate of the Professional Institute of Rich¬
mond, Va.; (2) Virginia Kennon Eller®, b. 9
June 1930; m. , 1* April 1953, Howard D. Calkins*
She is a graduate of the Professional Institute
of Richmond, Va*

(8) Arthur Laxton Eller^, b. 10 Oct. 1903; m., 30

June 1928, Margaret Evelyn Britton, b, 22 June
1902. He is a farmer at Chilhowie, Va. Their
children are, (1) Margaret June Eller®, b. 21
April 1930. She is a graduate of Virginia
Intermont College; (2) Arthur Laxton Eller Jr*®,
b* 5 Nov, 1933* He is a graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute; (3) Edward Britton
Eller'’', b. ii Sept. 1935* He graduated from
Marion College, Marion, Va.

(9) Henry Clay Eller', b. 9 Oct. 1905; m., 15 July

1930, Halley Katherine Harris, b. 21 May 1910.

He is a farmer at Marion, Va, Their children
are, (1) Mary Katherine Eller®, b. 1 May 1931;
m., h Aug. 19U8 , Jesse Clayton Lane; (2) Martha
Neff Eller9, b. 5 April 1932} m., Ii Aug, 1953,
Norman Allen Rogers of Texas, son of a Baptist
Minister. She is a graduate of the Virginia
Intermont College of Bristol, Va., also of the
School of Music of the Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; (3) Henry Clay
Eller Jr.®, b. 22 April 1933; d. 30 June 1933;
(U) Elizabeth Ann Eller®, b. 19 March 1936.

(10) Ruby Evelyn Eller^, b. 8 Sept. 1907; m., 3 July
1933, Hershel Preston Richardson, b. 19 March
191k, She graduated from the Virginia Inter¬
mont College at Bristol, Va. He is a dairy
farmer at Atkins, Va. Their children are, (1)
Evelyn Page Richardson®, b. 12 Oct. 193k# She
is a graduate of Mary Washington College of the
Univ. of Va* at Fredericksburg, Va,; (2) Hershel
Preston Richardson Jr*®, b, 23 March 1936. He
was awarded an American Farmer’s Citation at

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the convention of the National Future Farmers
of America in 1955.

(11) Joseph Burton Eller^, b. 18 March 1°00; m., June

1938, Thelma Vygal of Marion, Va. He is a
farmer at Marion, Va. Their children are, (1)
Joeeph Burton Eller Jr, . b. 2 5 Sept, l^lil;

(2) Judy Elisabeth Eller®, b. 2 Dec. 19li7,

(12) Fred Sherrill 311er7, b. 1L Sot. 10 10; d. 19

April 1911.

(13) Jack Hundley Eller^, b, 2li Dec. 1011; m., 17 Oct,

19ii0, Pegjy Ann Delp of Wytheville, Va. He
graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Insti¬
tute and presently is District Mgr. of Southern
States, Inc, at Richmond, Va. They have one
child namely, (1) Sharon Rebecca Eller®, b. 2
Oct. 19li3 at Pearisburg, Oiles Co., Va,

(ii) Pitney Aswell Eller , b. IS Nov. 1867, in Ashe Co.,

N. C.j d., 25 May 1956 at his home in Abingdon, Va.

He married, 12 Jan. 19Qli, Mary Sanders, b., 27 Oct.
1881, in Washington Co., Va. Mr. Eller was a promi¬
nent citisen of his town and county. In 1902 he and
Mr. James L. Vance formed a partnership which in
1903 was incorporated under the name of James L.

Vance and Co. The business grew to become a success¬
ful chain of hardware, farm and building supply
stores in south west Virginia. The company also
owned and operated a fertiliser maruf acturlng plant.
In 1926 the company was reorganited as The Vance
Company with Mr, Eller as the active Vice President,
a position he held until his retirement from active
business in 1952.

Mr. Eller was president of the Abingdon Motor Co.,
director of the National Bank of Chilhowie, Va. and
an original member of the Town Council serving in
that capacity until 1952. He also was a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Johnson Memorial Hospi¬
tal and active in all worthwhile civic and philan¬
thropic movements in the comunity where he lived.

Children:

(1) Frances Sanders Eller^, b. 9 Jan. 1907, She is

a teacher of organ and piano at Virginia Inter-
mont College, Bristol, Va# She did not marry.
(2) Marian Carlton Eller^, b. 8 April 1912*; m., 2 Nov.
19li0, Joseph Alfred Johnson, b., 29 Oct. 1917.
Family lives at Abingdon, Va. where he is owner
and manager of the Abingdon Motor Co,, Inc*
Their children are, (1) Joseph Alfred Johnson
Jr.®, b. 22 July 19Ul; (2) Marion Eller John-
son0, a son b. 30 Aug. 19ii3. Family lives at
Abingdon, Va.

(5) Edward Everett Eller^, b. , 12 Feb. 1870, in Wapello

Co., Iowa; d., 18 Oct. 1955; m., 30 July 1896, Eliza¬
beth Rebecca McNiel (McNeill), b., 2 April 1879; d*

5 May 1956. She was a dau. of Peter McNiel (McNeill)
and his wife Maryann B. Phillips and granddaughter
of John McNiel and his wife Rachel Eller^, dau. of
John Eller^, (Peter^, George Michael1). (See under
Eller Family VI herein.) Mr. Eller spent his youth
with his parents in Iowa and Snyth Co., Va. and set¬
tled in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co., N. C., about
1905. After teaching in the public schools in
Wilkes Co. for a time he established a poultry busi¬
ness later named the E. E. Eller Produce Co, This
compary was the first market for unlimited Quanti¬
ties of poultry and produce in north west North Caro¬
lina and was attributed by agricultural authorities
as being responsible for the poultry industry that
gave Wilkes County the leadership among other coun¬
ties in the state. Mr. Eller was a leader in the
conanunity wherein he lived. He and Mrs. Eller were
members of the Baptist Church wherein he was a mem¬
ber of the Board of Deacons and treasurer of the
benevolent fund of the church for more than thirty
years. He was a charter member of the North Wilkes¬
boro Kiwanis Club and a member of Wilkesboro Council
of the Junior Order. In gratitude for his services
to his town and county a fund in aid to higher educa¬
tion in Western N. C. and Virginia was established
in his name after his death. This fund will be
operated by a trustee and used to supply a one year

scholarship to a senior in a Wilkes Co. high school
who best demonstrates the Christian spirit of ser¬
vice, integrity, generosity of nature and kindness
exemplified in the life of Mr. Eller.

6

The children of Edward Everett Eller and his wife,
Elizabeth Rebecca McNiel (McNeill), were:

(1) Mary Elizabeth Eller^, b. 10 Sept. 1897; m., 29
Oct. 1919, William Marrin McCully. Family
lives at Salisbury, N. C.

(2)

(3)

Children:

(1) William Marvin McCully Jr. t b. 16 May

1921 5 m., 29 April 19Ji3» Jane Ducey, dau.
of Capt. John fticey, b. 1 May 192Ji. He

is a Cowander in the Naval Air Force.

They presently have children, (1) Sunny
C.hell McCully9, b. 28 J«n. l«Wi; (?)
Willi an She. McCully9, b. 9 Feb. 1953.
(2) Edward Eller McCully^, b. UU July 1925) »>.,
29 Nov. 1952, Dura Jean Seibert, b. 3

Dec. 1930, dau. of James Robert Seibert.
They presently have children, (1) Robert
Edward McCulley9, b. 22 Feb. 19^; (2)
Patrick Steven McCulleyg, b. 8 Nov. 1956.
Edward Everitt Eller Jr,^, b. 7 Feb. 1901; d. 23

Dec. 1905*

Ernest McNeill Eller , b., 23 Jen. 1903, at
Marlon, Va. ; m., 27 May 1926, Agnes Fogle Pfohl,
b. 16 Oct. 1902. She is a dau. of Herbert
Augustus Pfohl, a leader in business in Winston-
Salem, N. C. and in the overall financial
management of the Moravian Church. Mr. Eller
graduated with honors from the U. S. Naval

Academy at Annapolis, Md. in 1925 with the
degree of B. S. In 193ii he received his M. A.
degree from George Washington Unlv. He ad¬
vanced through successive grades to Cosnodore
in 19li6 and in 19*>li was retired from active
service as a Rear Admiral. His Impressive
record as a writer, teacher and naval officer,

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which included membership on the staff of
Admiral Nimitz in World War II, is described
in Vol. 29 of "Who^ Who in America." Among
his writings is a historical, legendary and
contemporary account of the Moravians and their
settlement in western North Carolina* He re¬
cently resigned as Director of Engineering at
Bucknell Univ, at Lewisburg, Penna. to become
Director of the Naval History Division of the
Navy Department in Washington, D. C.

Children:

(1) Peter McNeill Pfohl Eller®, b., 2h Aug*

1937. Valedictorian of his class in
Severn School, Annapolis, 19 5U; presently
a chemical engineering student at Johns
Hopkins Univ.

(2) John Christian Eller , b. , 29 Nov. 19ii0.

Presently attending Severn School and a
leader in his class.

(U) Franklin Peter Eller^, b. 10 March 1905; m., 1
Oct. 1929, Ethel Webb of Baton Rouge, La,

They have two children.

(1) Peter McNeill Eller®.

(2) Edward E. Eller8.

(6) Ellen Eller6 7 8 9, b. , 1873; d. , 1883. She and her brother

Manley and sister Louise died of diphtheria in the
same week and year.

(7) Manley Toy Eller^, b., 1875; d., 1883.

(8) Louise Eller6, b., 1877; d., 1883.

(9) Benjamin Hill Eller6, b., 20 Dec. 1878 at Harvard,

Nebr. ; d. 5 Jan. 19^8; m. 1st., 13 March 1901, at
Atkins, Va., Melissa 3elle Cornett, of Grayson Co.,
Va., b., 2h April 1873; d. 8 May 1933. He m., 2nd.

28 March 1936, at New Albany, Ind., Edna Tribner, b,

9 June I89h. The family lived first, and until June
of 1925, at Marion, Va. where he was successively a

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farrier, school teacher and merchant. In 1925 he re¬
moved to North Wllkesboro, V. C., later going to
Asheville, N. C. where he was manager of the Asheville
Branch of Farmer’s Federation Inc. In 1^32 he Joined
Armour and Company and was sent to New Albany, Ind.
as manager of the c omnany ’ s produce company at that
place.

Children:

(1) *>an Hill Eller , b. LL Dec. 1901; m., 26 Dae.

1925, in North Wllkesboro, N. C., Sudie Kay
Moore, b. , 9 May 190b, in Concord, N. C. He
is president of the Clark Feed and Supply Co.
of Greens burg, Ky., Treas. of B. 4 M. Chix,

Inc., Louisville, Ky. and Broiler Supervisor,
Armour Creameries, Louisville, Ky. Their child¬
ren are, (1) Martha Moore EllerP, b. 30 June
1931 at Asheville, N. C.j m., 17 Dec. 19524,
Leslie Abbott Jr., b., 15 July 1^20, at Louis¬
ville, Ky. He is an architect in Louisville,

Ky. where he and his family live.

(2) Katherine Lajcton Eller^, b. 2ii May 1903, at

Atkins, Va. ; ■., 1st., 1L Jan. 1926, at North
Wllkesboro, N. C., George Stuart Parller Sr.,
b, 11 Nov. 1900, at Wllkesboro, N. C.; a., 2nd.,
2 Feb. 1935, at New Albany, Ind., Irvin Lee
Parnell, b. 18 Nov. 1906. He is a Diesel Engr.
Fienily presently living at New Albany, Ind.
Children by first marriage, (1) George Stuart
Parller Jr.P, b. 3 Dec. 19?6; m., 7 March 19b6,
at New Albary, Ind., Jane Lee King, b., 13 Jan.
1927, at New Albany* He is in the insurance
business at Terra Hants, Ind. where he and his
family presently live.

(3) LeRoy Fulton Eller^, b. , 11 June 190b, at Marion,

Va.; m., 19 April 1923, at Hagerstown, Md.,
Margaret Hasslnger, b. , 27 May 1905 at Abingdon,
Va. The family presently lives at Gate City,

Va. They have one daughter, namely, (1) Marga¬
ret Louise Eller^, b., 3 Jan. 1925, at Abington,
Va.; m., 31 March 19b6, at New Orleans, La.,

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James Boyd Fugate, b. 20 Nov. 1920, at Clinch-
port, Va.

( U ) McRae Eller7, b. 1906; d. at age of three months.

(£) Lillian Watkins Eller7, b. 19 Jan. 1909, at

Marion, Va.; m., 1st., 18 Feb, 1926, at North
Wilkesboro, N. C., Worth Edwin Morrison, b.,

Hi Feb. 190li, at Wilkesboro, N. C.; d., 6 April
1936, at Wilkesboro. He was a hardware mer¬
chant. She m. 2nd., 17 Jan. 1939, at Columbia,
S. C., Pierce Embree Cook, D.D., b. 3 Aug. 1911,
at Chesterfield, S. C. He is a Methodist
Minister and District Supt. of the South Caro¬
lina Conference. Family presently living at
Orangeburg, S. C. No children by first mar¬
riage and two by second as follows, (1) Pierce
Embree Cook Jr. , b., 25 May 19Uii, at Conway,

S. C.; (2) Lillian Carol Cook8, b., 25 May
19U6, at Conway, S. C.

(10) Mollie Evelyn Eller^, b., 11 May 1881; d. 19 July 19l*0;
m., 6 Aug. 1915, William Heggie McNiel (McNeill), b.,
12 Apr. 1879; d., l£ Jan. 1925# He was a brother of
the wife of her brother Edward Everett Eller and son
of Peter McNiel (McNeill) and his wife Maryann B,
Phillips. (See McNiel Family herein.) Family lived
in North Wilkesboro, N. C. where he was engaged in
the merchandising business, in later years being
associated with his brother-in-law, Edward Everitt
Eller6.

Children:

(1) Frank McNiel , (McNeill) b., 13 Jan, 1916, twin

with Mary Frances next below. He m. May 19l*l,
Marie Johnson.

(2) Mary Frances McNiel^, (McNeill), b. 13 Jan. 1916,

twin with Frank next above. She m., Oct, 191*1,
Fred H. Bradford.

(3) Robert McNiel7, (McNeill), b. 1918; d. 1 h Oct.

1923*

(1*) Margaret McNiel7, (McNeill), b. 27 Sept, 1920;
m., 191*0, Thomas Allen Blizzard.

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(?) Edward Eller McMlel7, (McNeill), b. 7 Oct. 1922;
m., May 1939, Edna WllHaas. They have child-
ren, (1) Judith McNiel8 (McNeill), b. April
10|jO; (2) Patricia McNlel8 (McNeill), b. 3 Dec.
19ljl; (3) Edward Eller McNielP (McNeiU), b.

28 July 19fc$a

(11) Mattie Edith Eller6, b., Ub July 1883; d. 17 May 1933.

She was a teacher in the public schools of North
Wllkesboro, N, C. She never married.

(12) E jrjaa Chloe Eller^, b., 16 Kay 1665 at Atkins, Va. ;

still living 1956* She was a teacher In the public
schools of North Wilkes boro, N. C«, now retired.

She never married. She lives presently In North
Wllkesboro, N. C.

290

HOOK FAMILY

Intermarried with Eller Family XIII, page 188 herein.

The following chapter on the Hook family has been
included to record new information on the early genera¬
tions of the family not heretofore published and to add
some new dates and names to later generations. The
reader is referred to three books written earlier by this
author which give much additional information on the
family. These books are "James Hook and Virginia Eller",
published in 1925, "Capt, James Hook of Greene Co,, Pa,",
published in 1951 and. "Smith, Grant and Irons Families
of New Jersey rs Shore Counties", published in 1955* They
will be found in many libraries.

The Hook family originated in the south of England, its
name deriving apparently from the manor of Houch, pronounced
Huke, later spelled Hooke, located in the Parish of Titch-
field in Hampshire where it still exists. This old manor is
mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the name pronounced
Huke the same as Hook and Hooke are pronounced in most of
England and Ireland today. One Eustace de la Hooke held
lands at Houch in Norman times, (Harleian Mss, lb73> f« 82
and 1096.) The French "de la" gave way to Atthooke and
Attehooke as the language, was anglicized and finally was
simplified to Hooke and Hook, The names Delahook and Athook
are found today in England and the United States,

The name Hooke is recorded in earliest surname times.

One Sir Richard Hooke Knt, served in Scotland under Edward I
(1272-1307). (Viz. York 158b) The name appears in Somerset
in 1255 and in Surrey in 1325* The files at Somerset House
in London are replete with Hooke wills and records dating
back to the 13th and lbth centuries. The family ranged from
small land owners to gentlemen preferred of kings, including
knights, lords. Members of Parliament, great merchants, ship
captains, mayors of cities, high churchmen and aldermen.

One Henry Hooke was Archdeacon of York ( 1617-1623 )• Robert
Hooke of Southampton was one of the world1 s great scientists,
Nathaniel Hook was a noted historian, James Hook (17b6-l826)
was a noted composer and organist while his sons James and
Theodore Edward were novelists and writers of prominence.

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Janes Clarke Hook of London was a painter of note and a full
nenter of the Royal Acadeny. Alderman Humphrey Hook (1580-
1659) of Bristol was a wealthy merchant of great influence,
owner of 3even manors in Gloucestershire, Member of Parlia¬
ment in both the long and short sessions and one of the bene¬
ficiaries of the Agamenticus patent which was the founding
nucleus of our state of Maine. His non Wi lliar (1612-1652),
cane to this new land in 1635 and was styled "Governor" in
1638-16LO. His descendants are found today in nary parts
of the United States • (See "Humphrey Hooke of Bristol" by
Frederick W, Todd, 1938. Also see chapter 71 II and appen¬
dix of "Jtoral Life in Hampshire" by tf. W. Capes, London
1901.)

FAMILY I

The Hook family of this genealogy descended from
THOMAS HOOFE* who is said to have cone to the state of Mary¬
land on the "Ooulden Wheat Sheaf," of London, Capt. Janes
Connaway coewanding , In April 1668. The passengers were
mostly redemptions rs but s document signed by Capt. Connaway
in August of 1668 declared that he had used his rights in
so fsr ss Thomas Hooke* and three others were concerned thus
giving the impression that they had been transported on some
special terms. Tradition tells us that Connaway was the
uncle of Thonas Hooke A but this writer hss found no records
to prove It. Thonas Hooke* did name his first child James
which may have some significance*

Thomas Hooke * was listed as a taxable freeman in Mary¬
land in 1677 when he was assessed thirty pounds of tobacco
to help the colory pay for an expedition against the
Nantlcote Indians. He was the only Hooke or Hook in the
colory to be assessed. He was again assessed thirty pounds
by the General Assembly In 1681 to help pay expenses for the
"Public Oood." On this latter date one Jeremiah Hooke was
on the tax list also. (Kd. Archives, Vol. 7, pp. 97 and
209.)

Thomas Hooke's land on West River about ten miles south
of Annapolis is mentioned in the Provincial Court records of
May 169li • It was located near land owned by Thomas Tench
and Richard Galloway. (Liber TL, #1, p. 9lj at Annapolis, Md.)
On 23 ^pt. 1697 Thomas Hooke^ wrote Ms will. Ip it he

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described himself as being of Prince George County and
willed his property to his sons James and Thomas with the
provision that both sons remain with their mother, "until
they be on and twenty years of Eage." (Liber 1, folio h ,
Prince George Co., Md. Wills). His wife, Annaple Hooke,
signed the Administration Bond on May 26, 1698. On July 2h ,
1699, John Wright and his wife Annaple, administrators of
Thomas Hooke’s estate, appeared and swore to the inventory
of the estate, indicating that Annaple Hook had married
John Wright meantime* One could question if Annaple was her
correct name or if it was not meant to be written Annable
or Arrabella. To this writer Annaple appeared to be the
correct spelling despite the fact that her son James named
one of his daughters Arrabella.

The children of Thomas Hooke^ and his wife Annaple

were :

(1) James Hooke^, b. after 1680; d. 1738; m. about 1706,

Margaret Thrasher who seems to have been related to
the Brooke and Lee families and probably the Magruder
and Beale families as well. All records of him spell
the name Hook which was the spelling used in later
generations, (See Hook Family II, page 293 for child¬
ren,)

(2) Thomas Hooke , b, after 1682. The only record that

could apply to him appears in the register of the
Queen Anne Parish, in Prince George County, Md.,
when on the 19th day of June 1710 one Thomas Hook
subscribed 100 pounds of tobacco for use by the
Vestry of the parish to be "disposed of as they see
fit."

293

JAMES HOOK?

Son of Thomas Hooke pages 291, 2^2,

FAMILT n

JAMES HOOF^, (Thomas") was bom probably about 1680
and died in 173®. He m., about 1706, Margaret Thrasher,
dau, of Benjamin and Mary Thrasher (Thresher), The admin¬
istration bond of his estate, (he left no will), was signed
on July 3, 1736 *7 Margaret Hook, "widow of the deceased"
and by Janes Lee and was witnessed by Lucy and Isaac Brooke.
The inventory of the estate of Benjamin Thrasher, the father,
doubtless, of Margaret Hook, was signed, 18 May 17iil, by
Janes and Mary Lee as "near relatives" and by John Jackson
and Nlnian Beale* John Beale signed as creditor* Shortly
thereafter, on 22 March 171*2, Mary Thrasher of Prince George
County, Md*, widow, recorded a gift amounting to seven
pounds current money made on 21 March 1703 (sic) to each of
her seven children as follows: (1) Thomas Thrasher; (2)

Mary Thrasher; (3) John Thrasher; (ii) William Thrasher; (5)
Sarah Thrasher; (6) Margaret Thrasher and (7) Benjamin
Thrasher* Of these children Mary, doubtless, became the
wife of James Lee and Margaret the wife of Jar.es Hook* *

(Deed Book T, p. 626, Prince George Co,, Md*) In 1727
Benjamin Thrasher, the father-in-law, doubtless, of James
Hook? recorded the gift of a dark grey nare to James Hook,
Jr.^, son of James Hook?. (Liber M., folio 171*, Prince
George Co., Me* Deeds.) On 26 Aug, 171*0 James Hook Jr*'7 was
made the recipient of another gift when John Magruder, his
wife Susanna concurring, gave 190 acres of land on the mouth
of Ketankln Creek, (in what la now Frederick Co., Md*), to
"*y good friend James Hook." (Liber T, folio 195, Prince
George Co*, Md* Deeds*) This substantial gift to James
Hook Jr.} offers an interesting opportunity to an enter¬
prising member of the family to ferret out the motive and
reason therefor and to determine if a family relationship
might not have prompted it*

Jamas Hook?, the final "e" in his name was dropped in
his generation, lived near his parental hone until 1711*,
when, calling himself a planter, he waa given a lifetime
lease by John Bradford on 150 acres of land on Begoe Branch
(probably now Sligo Branch) located in what is now the

29h

northern part of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.,
near Sligo Mill Hoad. Doubtless this land was part of
"Bradfords Rest" on Rock Creek, containing 26i|8 acres, that
was surveyed to John Bradford, 13 June 1713, to which was
added 98U acres on 20 Sept. 1713* The lease was dated Aug.

9, 17l!u (Liber E, folio 393, Prince George Co., Md. Deeds.)
He was to have and hold this land "for and during the
natural life of him, the said James Hook, Margaret his wife
and his daughter Mary and the longest liver of them." The
yearly rental was to be "900 pounds of tobacco in casque,
clear of all manner of trash and ground leaves*" James
Hook^ was living upon this land in 1726 as indicated in the
will of John Bradford and the widow was still there when
Janes Hook died in 1738.

James Hook was one of the organizers of the Rock
Creek Parish of the Church of England in Maryland erected
on land given to the new parish by Colonel John Bradford*

On Sept, 18, 1719 he subscribed 200 pounds of tobacco
"toward erecting a chappel to serve the inhabitants of the
Eastern Branch of Rock Creek." He was the seventh largest
subscriber. Shortly thereafter he was chosen a member of
the committee to select the site for the new chapel. He
was elected a warden of the parish on Apr. 10, 1732 and on
March 26 of the following year was made a vestryman.

(Prince George Parish Records, Rock Creek, Md.) The parish
is still flourishing at Rock Creek Church Road and Webster
Streets in Washington, D. C* where the present church, part
of it built in 1779, occupies the sane beautiful site of
the first one. The graves of the pioneer members are
indicated by a single memorial marker that stands near the

church entrance under a great white oak tree. The estate

2

of James Hook was appraised July 26, 1739 and signed by
James Hook^ and John Hook3 as creditors and kin and by John
Magruder as creditor, (Prince George Co., Md, records.)

2

The children of James Hook and his wife Margaret
Thrasher were:

(1) Mary Hook^, (James?, Thomas^) b* Nov. 17, 1708 (Queen
Anne Parish Record). Margaret Hook, probably the
same as Mary, married Thomas Fee 6 Oct. 1733*

(Prince George Parish records . )

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(2) Arrabella Hook\ (James^, Thomas*) m. John Giles and

had a son James Giles. (Deed Book M, folio 173*
Prince George Co., Md.)

(3) RAchel Hook\ (James?, Thomas*), m. Feb. 25, 1731,

Robert Owlngs. (Prince George Parish records.)

Robert Owlngs died in 176U/65 and on 25 Feb. 1765
the bond of Rachel (*#en (sic), executrix of the will
of Robert Owens (sic) was signed by her brother,

James Hook and John Simpson as Sureties, (Test Pro¬
ceedings, Vol. lil, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md.)
The will of Robert Owlngs was dated lii May 1762 in
Frederick Co., Md. an* probated 25 Feb. 1765* It
mentioned his wife Rachel, executrix, and children,
(1) Thomas O/ings;^1 (2) Robert Owlngs^; (3) John
Owlngs^ | (li ) James (Vlng*^; (5) ften 0#ings^; (6)
David Owings^; (7) Margaret Clerk*4; (0) Ijrdia Pilee^;
(9) Rachel Harper“. The will was witnessed by Arthur
Nelson, James Hook and John Simpson. (Lioer A, No.

1, folio 230, Frederick Co., Md. Wills.) The name
was spelled Owings in most places but occasionally
the spelling was Owens or Owen.

(li) Samuel Hook\ (James4, Thomas*) probably a son. A
Samuel Hook brought suit against Philip Boatman
(Botaman) in the Aug. 17*3i court of Frederick County,

Md.

(5) James Hook^, (James?, Thomas*) was bom in Prince

George Co., Md., say about 1716, and died in lower
Frederick Co., Md. in 1002. He was married twice,
the name of his first wife, the mother of all his
children being unknown. His second wife was Mrs.
Elltabeth Northcraft with wham he signed marriage
articles 15 Feb. 1760. (Liber K, folio 1225, Fred¬
erick Co., Md. Deeds.) She was the widow of Edward
Northcraft of Frederick Co. whose will was dated 17
June 1766 and probated Ui Aug. 1766. (Liber 1, folio
266, Frederick Co. Wills.) There were no children
fcy the second marriage. (See Hook family III, p. 297
for children, also see p. 312.)

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(6)

3 2 1

John Hook , (James , Thomas ) was born in Prince
George Co., Md., say about 1718, (see p. 312), and
died in lower Frederick Co., Md. in 1761. He married,
Sarah, some say Sarah Simpson and others Sarah Snowden.
The writer would guess Sarah Snowden because her
second son was named John Snowden Hook. See Hook
Family IV, p. 306 for children.

(7) Sarah Hook , b. 18 May 1721*. She is said to have

married Abraham Lakin Jr., son of Abraham and Martha
(Lee) Lakin* The family lived in lower Frederick
Co., Md. and had children as follows. (See the book
"Capt. James Hook of Greene Co., Pa.M, pp. 69-79*)

(1) Eleanor Lakin^, b. 28 Jan. 171*5*

(2) Deborah Lakin^ b. 9 Dec. 171*6.

(3) Benjamin Lakin^, b. 21 Dec, 171*8.

( U) John Lakin^ b, 28 Dec. 1750.

(5) Sarah Lakirf, b. 28 April 1755; m. Richard

Duckett Wells.

(6) Abraham Lakin\ b. 29 Dec. 1757; m., 18 July

1788, Mary Ungleby.

(7) Daniel Lakin^, b. 20 Jan. 1759; m., 30 Jan. 1787

Ann Shekels.

(8) Nancy Lakin^, b. 27 Sept. 1762; m. , 25 June 1788,

Abraham Deaver.

(8) Stephen Hook^, may have been a son. A Stephen Hook

married Dorothy Barklett, in Queen Annes Co., Md*f
6 Feb. 1757. (St* LLLke*s Parish Records, Queen
Annes Co., Md.)

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JAMES HOOK JR.3

Son of James Hook^, Family II, page 293.

FAMILT III

JAMES HOOK JR. 3 (James?, Thomas1), was bom, say about
1716, (see p# 312) in Prince George Co., Mi. and died in
lower Frederick Co#, Md. in 1002. He was married twice,
first, this writer guesses, to a daughter of George and Par¬
nell Fee, and second to Mrs# Elisabeth Morthcraf t with whom
he signed marriage articles IS Feb. 1760. (Liber K, folio
1225, Frederick Co#, Md. Deeds.) She was the widow of Edward
No rt he raft of Frederick Co# whose will was dated 17 June 1766
and probated lli Aug# 1766. (Liber 1, folio 266, Frederick
Co., Md. Wills.)

The Fee family in Maryland began with George and Par¬
nell Fee who had children Thomas, Rachel and Elisabeth and
probably another son George# The son Thomas probably was
the Thomas Fee who married, 6 Oct. 1733, as his first wife,
Margaret Hook\ (James* , Thomas^*) . She probably died soon,
after which he married a Miss Thrasher and had children,

(1) George Fee who married an Archer; (2) John Fee, b# 13
March 1757, who married Elisabeth, dau. of Robert Bradford
of Oreene Co#, Pa#; (3) Mary Fee who married Richard Jack-
son who built Fort Jackson on the Tenmile Creek in Greene
County, Pa. He died in 1793; (h) Ikith Fee married an Owen.
Thomas Fee, married 3rd., Sarah Lieth (Lyeth), dau. of
Robert and Sarah (Lakin) Lieth (lyeth) and had a family of
ID children. She was a sister of Mary Lieth (lyeth) who
married Capt# James Hook , Family V, page 313* (See "The
Tenmile Country and its Pioneer Families", Vol. VI, pp#

39^2 by Howard L# Lackey.)

James Hook*^ is first found in the records in 1727 when
Benjamin Thrasher, his grandfather doubtless, made him a
gift of a dark grey mare# (Liber M, folio 17L, Prince
Oeorge Co#, Md# Deeds.) The next record was found in the
Nomember 1739 court of Prince Oeorge County when he was ap¬
pointed overseer of the road from "Monocacy to Shenandoah
Mountain." This road would have been in the southern part
of what in 17L0 became Frederick County, Md. On 26 August
17L0 John Magruder, his wife Susanna concurring, conveyed
to his "good friend James Hook" tj a deed of gift "150 acres

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of land on the mouth of Ketauken Creek which falls into the
Potomac River about ten miles north of Monocacy." (Liber Y,
folio 195, Prince George Co., Md. Deeds.) This was part of
a tract of land called "Ketanken (Catoctin) Bottom” contain¬
ing 250 acres that was granted to John Magruder ii Jan. 1731*
The motive back of this gift is not krown but tradition
with no records of any kind to support it, says that Thomas
Hook^, grandfather of James Hook^, married a Magruder*

James Hook^, on 27 Nov. 17^0, conveyed to his "loving
brother John Hook-^, by deed of gift, fifty acres of this
land. (Liber Y, folio 2hh, Prince George Co., Md. Deeds.)

On I4. April 175U John Hook^ deeded this same fifty acres back
to his brother James Hook^. (Liber E, folio 1*12, Frederick
Co., Md* Deeds*) In the August Court of 175U Richard Ancrum
entered an action against James Hook^. John Hook^ testified
for Ancrum and was in court ten days for this purpose* In
an action of John Jacobs against Richard Norwood, in June
of 1755, James and John Hook were on opposite sides. It
would seem from these court records that the two Hook
brothers were then on unfriendly terms. If this was true
the rift must have disappeared after John’s death in 1761,
because it is said that John’s two sons lived for a time
with their Uncle James at the latter’s plantation, and, as
will be seen, both named sons of theirs after him and his
children.

On 1 February 1763 a special warrant was granted to
James Hook-^ out of the Land Office of Maryland for the re¬
survey of a tract of land called Kittocton Bottom in Fred¬
erick County* The resurvey was made and a certificate re¬
turned to the Land Office showing that 1533 acres of vacant
land had been added. Evidently this 1533 acres included
the whole of the 250 acres that had been granted to John
Magruder in 1731* Hook carelessly neglected to pay the
caution money (earnest money) within the time limit required
to make the title clear, a fact that later became known to
one Thomas French who came forward, paid the caution money
and requested that a warrant for the land be issued to him
as "first discoverer." Accordingly, on 10 Feb. 177U the
warrant was issued to him and, on 26 July 177U, renewed for
an additional period of six months. The land was resurveyed
and 1265 acres laid out for him. Hook contested the pro-

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ceedings and succeeded, on 22 March 1775, in obtaining an
assignment of the 1265 acres from Thomas French and rename-
ing the grant "Hooks Neglect Recovered by Hard Struggle" by
which name the grant is now recorded. What Hook paid to
French for the assignment was not learned by this writer but
the caution money Hook paid amounted to 63 pounds and 5
shillings for the land and 3 pounds and 17 shillings for
the ijjjrovements on same. (Liber BC and OS #52, Patent
Book, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md.)

The land was again surveyed 2h March 1788, found to
cortaln 1002 acres mid given the name of "Hooks Conclusion"
a name suggesting that, at long last, the proper metes and
bounds and acreage of the property had been established and
that the owner of it, without further question, was James
Hook. It was willed by him to his bachellor son James
Samuel Hook t*io lived on it until his death in 1820. On 23
January 1821 three hundred acres of the property Including
the "mansion house of the late James Hook" was sold to
Patrick McOlll Jr. who had married Mary Deris Hook*', dau.
of Daniel Hook^ and granddaughter of James Hock^ and a
niece of James Smsuel Hook^. After Patrick McGill Jr. died,
li Oct. 1862, the plantation became the property of his
daughter Sarah Eleanor and her husband John Lloyd Belt.
(Liber J. S. #12, pp. 2li9, 38O, 383, Frederick Co., Md.
Deeds.)

James Hook3 owned other land that he had acquired over
the years by purchase or grant. One of these tracts, called
"Daniel’s Diligence," containing 39L acres, was surveyed
f<r Janes Hook-, 23 Sept. 1786, patented to him in 1789 and
given by him to his son ^milel Hook^, 2? Dec. 17P9. This
land was partly a resurvey on a tract originally called
"Thrashers Chance" that had been surveyed for Thomas
Thrasher, 5 Aug. 1763. It was located at the west end of
Jefferson Township (election district) on the main road
leading frai Frederick, Md. to Harpers Ferry. It also,
probably, was part of another tract of 110 acres called
"Thrashers Lot" that was surveyed for Thomas Thrasher, 26
July 1750. At the tin of his death James Hook7 owned
probably as much as 1500 acres, the main acreage being the
home plantation of 1002 acres which bore the name of "Hook’s
Conclusion". The old "Hook’s Conclusion" house, built

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probably as early as 1760-1775 and later called ’’Potomac
Hills ”, still stands some two miles north west of Point of
Rocks, Maryland on the road leading from that town to Jeffer¬
son and Brunswick* Its walls of solid stone 2 feet li inches
thick, its high ceilinged, well proportioned rooms bear
strong evidence of mid 18th century construction* The north
wing, constructed principally of wood and rough cast, that
was added in 1812/13 has been removed so that now only the
original structure remains. This writer saw and photograph¬
ed the exterior of the house in October 1921*. He regrets
that he did not have professional pictures taken inside and
outside of the house at the time. He particularly regrets
not having photographed the plain but handsome stairway in
the front hall which he remembers so well. He also remem¬
bers the high ceilinged, nearly souare but well proportioned
rooms with fireplaces in each, the basement kitchen and its
stairway, the latter with a ceiling hung landing, leading
to the back hall arxi dining room above and the two north
porches, one above the other, that overlooked the terraced
gardens on the north and the lovely hills beyond. On the
south, remnants of the slave quarters and cook house could
then be seen and down the hill to the eastward the spring-
house* The farther view southward embraced the high roll¬
ing hills that border the north bank of the Potomac River
that formed the border of the plantation for several miles
on the south and west*

Emanuel Hine owned the plantation during the early
years of the present century. His daughter, May Hine, in
a letter addressed to this writer, on 27 Nov. 1923, told of
"quite a large cemetery on the place, near the house" that
was clearly evident but without gravestone when her father
"took possession twenty years ago." Others confirmed the
presence of such a cemetery but say it was for slaves and
their kin and that the family burying ground was near the
river and distroyed when the B. & 0. Railroad was built in
1830-1835. "Potomac Hills has been a wonderful place,"
her letter continued and, "has a history well worth record¬
ing." She enclosed an account of the mansion house written
by pupils of a school near by which spoke of the spiral
stairway and the "ponderous iron lock" in the hall "fitted
with a gigantic key of ten or more inches" and stated that

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"one of the doors leading Into the hall Is still provided
with a ponderous brass lock and brass key of great length
and curious workmanship." "In the basement," the account
continued, "la found the crane used In cooking; also an old
ash hopper for obtaining lye from wood ashes and a huge
round flat stone upon tfilch the com was pounded for meal."
One room In the house, the account tells us, "was devoted
to the Interest of a large Masonic Order which had recorded
members from Maryland and Virginia" and "when abandonded
for that purpose was used for a Ball room." Hiring the
McOlll ownership, according to the account, (1821-196?) "a
private school of high character was conducted there" where¬
in "residents of the neighborhood and adjacent towns were
Instructed."

A trunk full of old letters, receipts and journals,
one journal havlrv entries as early as 1759 were removed
from the old house some forty or fifty years ago when it
was abandoned for living purposes. They Indicate that
Janes Hook was not only the operator of a plantation but
also a merchant and lender of money and produce to his
neighbors as we 11. These papers presently an In the pos¬
session of Mr. L. 'West Schnauffer of limnswlck, Md.

The will of James Hook ^ was dated 19 June 1798 and
proved 12 Oct. 1802. It mentioned no wife and gave "Hooks
Conclusion containing 1002 seres; also all other lands that
I may die possessed of; also 25 negroes (ell named); also
all horses, csttls, sheep, hogs, household furniture and
plantation utensils to son James Samuel Hook." It gave
to his eon Stephen three negroes, all named, and to his son
Daniel three negroes all named. The remainder of his estate
was to be divided e<aially "between three tone". Ho other
children were mrntloned Out this writer thinks that Parnell
Hook who mrrled Benjamin Rice ii Feb. 178?, may have been a
dau. who pre-deceased her father. Witnesses to the will
were John White nock, John Bnanner end Thomas Hawkins.

The records Indicate that he had provided well for
his sons Stephen and Danle 1, In the wqr of land, before hie
death. Daniel's land was In Frederick Co., Md. and Stephen's
In Bedford Co. . Va.

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The children of James Hook^, all by his first wife,

were, so far as public records show, three sons as follows:

(1) James Samuel Hook^, bom probably about 1750; d. 1820.

He did not marry. He succeeded his father as owner
of the latter* s large estate and in 1812/13 added
the north wing to the plantation house. Having no
children of his own he took under his care and
educated the three younger children of his brother
Daniel when the latter* s wife and the children* s
mother died in 1802. James Sanuel Hook together
with his father and brother Stephen and his cousin
John Snowden Hook were listed as members of the
Coimittee of Observation in Frederick Co., Md., 12
Sept. 1775 and 2h Oct. 1776. Other members on both
lists included Richard Ankrim Sr. and Jr., Jacob
Ankrim, Robert Owen Jr. and Thomas Schley. (Vol. XI,
Md. Hist. Magazine) On 1 Jan. 1819, James Samuel
Hook leased, subject to sale, for five years, the
9h0 acre Coton estate of Fanny Lee, late of Loudon
County, Va., the lease to terminate upon the death
of said Hook. Hook was to have use of the drawing
room and room above at the north end of the mansion
house, also of the office in the yard. In case the
estate was sold Hook was to give full possession on
6 month* s notice. Hook was to plant one third of
the bottom land in corn and one third of the up lands
in small grain and to pay rental of $500 during the
first and fifth years and $1000 per year for the
second, third and fourth years. The lease was dated
1 Dec. 18 18 and to take effect 1 Jan. 1919. Hook*s
death in the spring of 1820 terminated the lease as
of that time. (The original of this lease was found
among the papers removed from the old Potomac Hills
mansion house when it was abandoned for use some
forty or fifty years ago.)

(2) Stephen Hook^, b, 1756; d. after 1826. He married,

lli Nov. 178)4, Sarah Thrasher who died 2h June 1826.
She was a dau. of Thomas and Martha Thrasher of
Frederick Co., Va. Stephen Hook^4 was a Revolutionary
War soldier and was granted a pension from Allegheny

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County, Va. His pension papers showed that he
fought with Washington’s Amy at Morristown, N. J.
in 1777 and later in that year fought at the battle
of Germantown, Pa. On December 27, 17%, shortly
after his marriage, he purchased from William Mead
Jr. 300 acres of land on Mill Creek in Bedford Co.,
V*. On 22 Feb. 1708 he purchased, from William and
Ann Hayden, 7^3 additional acres in Bedford Co., Va.
on the Staunton River. On 27 Dec. 1790 he bought
another farm of Jjl8 acres in Bedford Co., Va. from
William Mead on Richardson Mill Creek. On ?8 Nov.
1791 he made a conditional deed to his father pledg¬
ing his farm of 790 acres in Bedford Co., Va. as
security for a loan of 355 pounds. Between 1788 and
16 00 Bedford Co. deeds show Stephen Hook and his wife
Sarah selling their land in Bedford County. It was
during this period that he Moved to Bote tort County,
Va. and later to Allegher^r Co., Va. where he and his
wife died. His children were, (1) Martha lee Hook'
who m. 1 Dec. 1812, Lewis Circle (Botetort Co., Va.
Marriage Records)) (2) F.ll Hook^j (3) Stephen Hook
Jr. C whose will was proved in Allegheny Co., Va. in
the March court of 1866; Mentioning four children,

(1) Madison Hook; (2) Henry H. Hook; (3) Ellas Hook;
(1) Beale Hook and (1*) a daughter Caroline Whitten.

No wife was mentioned.

(3) Daniel Hook\ b. probably about 1760; d. in Bulls tt

Co., Kentucky about 1007/08. He married 1st, 10 Feb.
1707, in Frederick Co., Md., Sarah Burgess, dau. of
Edward and Mary (Davis) Burgess of Montgomery Co.,

Md. She died in 1802 after which he rerovwd to
Kentucky and married, ?rv*., Miss Martha Crowe. By
his first wife he had 6 children, namely, (1) John
Burgess HookC, b. 1708; d. I82(i; m. 1st. 10 Dec.

1813, Puth Weakley, no issue; m. 2nd., May 1816,

Jane CLaphas, b. 1001; d. 1858 and in her had one
daughter Mary Hook'1; (2) Janes Hook**, b. 1790; d.
1837; 1st., 16 June iei6, Elisabeth McGill, dau.

of Patrick McGill Sr. 1 m. 2nd., July 1026,
Catherine Jamison. Because the pastor who married

him and Elizabeth McGill on 16 June 1816 was later
accused of not being oualified, the two were married
again on 13 April 1819. Family lived in Hancock,

Md* There was one son by the first marriage named
James Daniel Hook^, b. 11 Feb. 1817; d, 7 Feb. 1905;
m. Mary Davy and had a family of seven children,
only two of whom married and had children. (3) Mary
Davis Hook?, b. 12 May 1793; d. 19 July 1833, (Bible
record); m. 15 March 1816, Patrick McGill Jr.^,
(Patrick?, John®, James?, David^, James?, Davidk,
James-^, James^, James^), b, I* Oct. 1790; d. 29 May
1862; (M Daniel Hook Jr.?, b. 6 April 1795; d., 27
July 1870, at Atlanta, Georgia where he was a
prominent physician. He and his brother James and
his sister Mary Davis Hook were adopted by their
bachellor uncle James Samuel Hook and educated by
him. Daniel Hook Jr.'1' attended Carlisle College in
Pennsylvania. He removed to Louisville, Georgia in
1817 where a year later, in 18 18, he married
Catherine Schley, sister of William Schley of Mary¬
land, later Governor of Georgia. She was bom in
1795 and died in 1877; (5) Samuel Hook? died un¬
married as a result of an accident in a saw mill;

(6) George Hook?, probably a son but no proveable
record found*

The above children, Mary Davis Hook'3 and Dr.
Daniel Hook?, raised large families which are re¬
corded in the books on the Hook family mentioned at
the top of page 290.

There were two children of Daniel Hook*1 by his

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second wife, Martha Crowe, namely, (7) America Hook-3
who married Joseph E. Stocton and (8) Emily Hook?
who married R. S. Thompson. Both families resided
in Kentucky.

(li) Parnell Hook^ may have been a daughter. This is

suggested by the fact that the marriage records of
Frederick Co., Md. show that one Benjamin Rice was
issued a licence on h Feb* 1782 to marry Purnell
Hook. Parnell, which is sufficiently close to
Purnell to be the same, was the given name of the

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wife of George Fee whose son Thomas Fee married
Margaret Hook\ sister of James Hook Jr.\ Putting
these facts together nakes it not unreasonable to
guess that James Hook Jr.' married a daughter of
George and Parnell Fee and named one of his daughters
Parnell. She may have married 3enjamin Rice and pre¬
deceased her father. See pare ?1?.>

(5) Isaac Hook. There was an Isaac Hook who was issued a
licence in Frederick County, 11 Dec. 179b , to marry
Martha White. Who he was is not clear but this
writer does not believe he was related to James Hook
Jr.^ He suspects rather that he was a descendant of
the Baltimore Hooks some of wham owned land in
Frederick County but apparently did not live there.

(he Rudolph Hook was patented land (Hook's
Neglect) in what was then Frederick but now Washing¬
ton County, Md., west of Hagers t<m#n, 1 Jan. 1766.

One Nicholas Hook, who signed in German, was a lessee
and lessor of property in Frederick Co., 1766-1772.
Mathias Hook and his wife Catherine owned lot 30,
laid out for one acre which they had purchased from
Anthory Arnold 2? April 177U located in the town of
Westminster, the same being part of a tract of land
called "White Level". On lii Nov. 1771a "Matthias
Hook and Catherine his wife of Frederick, Md." sold
this lot to Paul Rlnscorss for 55 pounds common
money of Maryland. Westminster Is now in Carrol Co.,
Md. Mathias Hook apparently was the same Matthias
Hook who founded Hooks town , Penna . His great, great
grandson James A. Hook of Trinity, Ky. in a letter to
this writer stated that Matthias Hook came from near
Baltimore, Md. with his son John and two other sons,
the sons settling in Adams, Ross and Highland Coun¬
ties, Ohio, John msrrylrg probably Miss Poe and
having a son Benjamin who in turn had sons Benjamin
Jr. and Jsmes. Washington County, Penna. l&x re¬
cords show that Mathias Hook wss s taxable in
Bethlehem Twsp. in 1765. A Jacob Hook was on the
same list.

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JOHN HOOK

Son of James Hook^ Family II, p. 293«

FAMILY IV

3 2 1

JOHN HOOK , (James , Thomas ) was born, say about 1718,
(see p. 312) in Prince George Co., Md. and died in Frederick
Co., Md. between 19 May 1761 when his will was written and
h Dec. 1761 when it was proved. On 16 Feb. 1762 the inven¬
tory of his estate was appraised by Joseph Ray and John
Simpson. His wife was Sarah, some say Sarah Simpson, others
say Sarah Snowden. This writer would say Sarah Snowden and
thinks that the Sarah Simpson belief came from what appears
to him to be a fact, namely that after her first husband* s
death she married John Simpson who died in 1776, his wife
Sarah acting as the administratrix of his estate and John
Snowden Hook and William Luckett Jr. acting as her sureties.
(Vol. h7, p. 56, Testamentary Proceedings, Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.) Supporting the Snowden tradition is the
fact that John^ and Sarah Hook named their second son John
Snowden Hook. It is to be hoped that records will sometime
be found that will prove who John Hook*s wife was, and when
the search is made it had best not be confined to the names
Simpson and Snowden but also to that of Ankrom, which name
is associated prominently not only with John and Sarah Hook
but with their children as well. Richard Snowden was a
large land owner in Prince George County near "Bradfords
Rest" where the Hook family lived, one thousand acres of
which called "Snowden* s Manor" was surveyed for him 10 Dec.
1715. He was in the June 1755 court of Frederick Co.

John Hook^, (see p. 312), on 27 November 17h0, re¬
ceived as a gift from his brother James^, 50 acres of the
land on Catoctin Creek in Frederick County that John
Magruder had given to the said brother on 26 August 171*0.
(Liber Y, pp. 195 and 2lUi, Prince George, Maryland deeds.)

In 17U* John Hook signed a petition asking for a road to
be built from Tuscarora Creek to the mouth of Catoctin
Creek and in 17^8 he signed a petition for a road from
Fredericktown to Point of Rocks. In early 17U2 he and his
brother James signed the petition which created the All
Saints Parish of the Church of England in Western Prince
George Co., later Frederick Co. (Hist, of Western Mary-

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land by Thomas Scharf, 1862, Vol. 1, pp • 501-2.^ Others
among the signers were Robert Owens, brother-in-law of James
and John Hook\ and Thomas and George Fee, Thonas, probably ,
another brother-in-law of James and John Hook' and George
his father and the George Fee whose wife was Parnell.

On 29 Oct. 17li6 one hundred acres of land called "The
John and Sarah" was surveyed for John Hook and patented to
hi* 15 Oct. 171*7. On Pli Feb. 171*9 a resurvey of this land
to John Hook was oi'dered with instructions to amend all
errors and add contiguous vacant land. The re-survey was
made 27 July 1750 and certified to contain 366 acres. The
land was located on the east side of Ca toe tin Creek up stream
about two mllas from where it empties into the Potomac River.
It was patented to John Hook^ 10 Oct. 1752. (Liber I and S,
No. 7, folio 1L6, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Hi.) This
land, doubtless, was named for the patentees indicating that
they were married before the land was first surveyed, namely,
28 Oct. 1716.

John Hook1 served on the jury of the June court of
Frederick Courtly In 1750. On 18 J«. 1752 John and Sarah
Hook deeded 133 acres a t their farm to Richard Ankrum and,
presumably to correct m error, issued e rvw deed to Richard
Ankrum for the same land, P March 1753. (Liber B, folio
512 and Liber E, folio 108, Frederick Co., Md. Deeds.) The
name Ankrum Is spelled In a variety of ways in the records
in Frederick County, vli. Ankrom, Ancrum, Ancron, Arkrlm
etc. The family followed the Hooks to Greene Co., Pema.
then to Vinton Co., Ohio and finally to Wapello County,

Iowa where Jesse an* Sarah Ankrom, this writer* s uncle and
aunt, lived from 1865 to their deatha in the 1^20* a.

On 1* April 1751*, John Hook^ and wife Sarah deeded to
his brother Janes Hook1 fifty acres of land "called Klttoctln
Bottom", It apparently being the same land that, on 27 Nov.
171*0, was given to him by his brother James. (Liber E,
folio 1*12, Frederick Co., Hd. Deeds.) In the August court
of 1751* In a suit of Richard Ancrum against James Hock,

John Hook attended court for ten days testifying for Ancrum.
In the June oourt of 1755 in a court action of John Jacobs
against Richard Norwood, John and James Hook testified on
opposite sides. These court actions indicate that the two
brothers were not on friendly terra. If true then the rift

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must have been healed after John’s death in 1761 because it
is said that the latter’s two sons lived for some time after
their father’s death with their uncle, James Hook, and both
sons named children after their uncle and their uncle’s
children. There was an apparent difference, however, be¬
tween the brothers John and James, James owned mary slaves
while John left no record of ever having owned any. The
descendants of James moved southward to Virginia, Kentucky
and Georgia and became true disciples of the old, well-to-
do south, John’s descendants moved westward first to
western Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania, then to
Ohio, then on to Iowa, All, whether southerners or west¬
erners were men and women of sterling character and high
ideals, ancestors of whom today’s living descendants can be
proud.

The will of John Hook^ was dated 19 May 1761 and
proved b Dec, 1761, (Liber A, No. 1, folio 170, Frederick
Co,, Md,) In essentials it reads as follows.

After the usual preliminaries the text of the will
proceeds , ..”1 give to my son James Hook 135 acres of
land of the plantation I now live on to him and his
heirs forever after my wife’s decease, then I give to
ny son John Snowden Hook 135 acres of land (interlined
before signed) a part of the same tract I now live on
at the south end of the tract called John and Sarah,

I leave it to him and his heirs forever after ny wife’s
decease. Then I give to my wife Sarah all ny movable
effects to her for her to settle my affairs and pay ny
debts with all I have and I leave ny wife Sarah my
whole and sole executor,”

Witnesses - Abraham Sohn

John Simpson Signed - John Hook

Thomas Eld ridge.

The inventory of the estate of John Hook^ was ap¬
praised, February 16, 176? by Joseph Pay and Joseph Simpson,
The principal items were; 737 pounds of transfer tobacco,
one sow and eighteen shoats, nine sheep, six horses, cows,
one heifer and three yearlings, one loom and harness, two
linen wheels, six barrels of com, one coat, Jacket,

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breeches and hat, two beds and bedsteads, two saddles, three
plows, one pair stilllards, lumber, powder, one chest, lead
and Items of furniture, casks, pots, pans and other house*
hold utensils, Arthur Charlton and Charles Beatty for
Thomas Beatty signed as creditors, Jsr.es Hook^1 and Thomas
Thrasher signed as kin and Joseph Ray and Joseph Simpson
allied as appraisers, Thomas Thresher who signed as kin,
very probably, was John Hook's- uncle. He scarcely could
have been anyone else unless he was a son-in-law of a de¬
ceased dmighter which Is not likely,

John Hook- doubtless was burled in the private burial
grounds on his hoeie farm, This bu*ial place Is mentioned
In the deed of John Snowden Hook and his wife Elisabeth,
dated ?8 Jan, 179L, that traneferred the land that was will¬
ed to him by his father to William Luckett, The deed very
specifically excepted and reserved "to John S no den Hook,
his heirs wr* assigns forever thst part (of the property)
heretofore occupied as a graveyard or burial ground by the
family of said Hook----w ith free egress and regress from
•amt," (Liber 12, folio !i*0, Frederick Co,, Md, deeds,)

This writer has not been able to locate this old cemetery
and suspects that It has been obliterated by the march of
time,

i

The children of John and Sarah Hook were:

(1) James Hook^, b,, 17l*0/li9, in Frederick Co,, Hd, j d,,

In Greene Co,, Perns,, ?3 Jan, l8?L, He married,
about 1765, Mary Lyeth, b, 11 Sept, 17la3 ; d. 30
Jan, LB15, She was a daughter of Robert and Sarah
( Lakin) lyeth, (See Hook Family 7, page 313 herein
for children,)

(2) John Snowden (Snoden) Hook\ b., In Frederick Co,, Hd,

In 1751/?, (Imposition signed by him 2 Apr, 1P07
gave his age as 56.) He married, 1? Aug, 1770, In
Frederick Co,, Elisabeth Ward, He was listed as a
member of the Committee of Observation in Frederick
Co,, 12 Sept, 177^, and again ?li Ort, 1776, He
enlisted, P Aug, 1776, under 1st, Lieut, Clement
HolHey to do service in the Revolutionary War, He
sold his farm in Frederick Co,, Md, and removed to
Alleghery Co,, Md, about 1706 - 1790 where he

acquired much land and became a prominent and highly-
respected citizen. His will was written 6 Sept. 1825
and probated in Allegheny Co., Md., Hi Nov. 1826. It
mentioned his sons James, Rezin V. and three sons of
Rezin and one of Elias. Three of his own sons were
not mentioned, all probably deceased.

Children of John Snowden Hook^ and his wife Eliza¬
beth Ward were:

(1) James Hook'’, b. in Frederick Co., Md., Nov. 26,

1782; d. near Cumberland, Md», May 17, 181*5;
m. Oct. 1, 1803, Kezia Lynch in Frederick Co,,
Md., b, Dec. h9 1779; d. May 8, 1858. He was
1st. Lieut, in Capt. William McLaughlin* s Co.
in War of 1812. He raised a family of 1* sons
and 3 daughters. See the books referred to at
the top of page 29 0 herein for additional in¬
formation.

(2) Rezin V. Hook'’, m. Mary. He was a Corporal in

William McLaughlin’s Company in War of 1812.

Of issue, as follows; 1, 2, and 3 mentioned in
the will of his father John Snowden Hook,

(1) Samuel Lyeth Hook^, m. Sept. 17, 1839,

Mary Strong,

(2) Elizabeth Rachel Hook6.

(3) John Snowden Hook^, settled in Indiana,

(U) Carolina Hook6, m. Sept. 3, 1855, John

Wilt, Of issue: John Wilt and Mary L,
Wilt, the latter of whom m. George
Michael.

(3) Isaac S. Hook'’, d. 1805; m. Mar. li*, 1803,

Rebecca Tomlinson,

(U) Elias Hook1’, b. 1785; d. 1812; m. Aug. 23, 1811,
Margaret Crabtree. Issue: James Hook°, men-
tiored in his grandfather’s will.

(5) John L, Hook^. He was a private in William

McLaughlin’s Company, War of 1812.

(6) Greenberry Simpson Hook'’. Moved to Arkansas.

Issue; Greenberry Hook who m, Oct. 5, 1852,
Nancy Burton. Greenbury Hook was mentioned in
will of his Uncle James Hook.

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A curious time browned document representing articles
of partnership In a "Fish Pot" was found among the papers
taken frost the Potomac Hills Mansion House when It was
abandoned for living purposes many years ago. On 21 Aug*
1767, seven men, one for each day of the week, "made and

day to each for taking
►n were,

Thursday night
Friday night
Saturday night
Sunday night
Monday night
Tuesday night
Wednesday night

finished" a "fish pot" and assigned
possession of the catch. The seven

James Hook assigned
John Thrasher
John Ankrom
Frederick Boyer
Abraham Leakin
Isaac Pamall

John Wlghtly

As tins went on ownership of the seven rights chmiged
somewhat and soon after the original articles were signed
It appeared as follows;

James Hook Sr. owner of one right
John Thrasher ■ ■ one half right

John Ankrom
Frederick Boyer
Abraham Imakln
Richard Ankrom
Isaac Pamall

John Wlghtly
Thomas Fee
James Hook Jr.
John Snowden Hook
Conrad Spease
Robert Wells

The Ankroms, Thrashers, Leaklns, Fees and Hooks
probably were related. The "Pot" doubtless was set In the
river (Potomac) adjacent to "Potomac Hills" owned by James
Hook Sr. In Lower Frederick Co., Md. James Hook Jr. and
John Snowden Hook were brothers and James Hook Sr. was their
uncle. James Hook Jr. appended Jr. to his name to avoid
confusion with his undle James.

Another document found among the papers taken from
Potomac Hills shows that James Hook^ of Greene Co., Penna.,
on 18 March 1819 had loaned his cousin, James Samuel Hook,
one hundred and nlnty five dollars, fifty dollars of which

f

was repaid by the latter’s administrators to Israel Hook
son of and agent for James Hook^, and the balance by the
administrators directly to James Hodl1 of Greene Co., Pa.

The following record which came to light as this book
was nearing completion shows that John Hook must have been
living in the Monocacy Hundred as early as 173k. The August
Court (Prince George Co., Md.) of that year listed John Hook
along with others, including George and Thomas Fee, relatives
of his probably, who had not burned their tobacco as the
law reouired. (See p. 297) This record seems to place John
Hook in that section some six years before he owned land
there, a situation apparently that applied to all of the
eighty or more settlers on the list. It also indicates an
earlier birth date for John Hook and also, probably, for his
brother James than 1718 and 1716 respectively shown elsewhere
herein. In 173k Monocacy Hundred extended from the mouth of
the Monocacy River westward to the end of the Maryland
domain. This writer did not learn why farmers in the dis¬
trict were required to bum their tobacco. It may have been
because of a lack or glut of market.

This writer is indebted to Dr. Grace L. Tracey of Hamp¬
stead, Md. for the above important information, also for the
following clew to the date of founding and location of the
first English Church in Monocacy Region. Mrs. Tracey’s
letter of 7 June 1997 says, in part, "In March of 173k/9, a

petition was heard in Maryland Assembly from the inhabit¬
ants of the middle part of Prince George County request¬
ing funds for the building of a chapel of ease in their
area# To date, we have not found further information
about this petition. However, I did Just find another
petition to the November Court of 17k0 requesting a road
’from fybom’s to John Nelson’s’ for the benefit of our
mill and our church. John Nelson lived near present-day
Point of Rocks, John Pybom lived south of the mouth of
Monocacy, Elting’s mill was on Broad Run in present-day
Montgomery County. This seems to place the church at
or near present-day Beallsville in Montgomery County.
Tradition has placed an old church there but until now
no records have tended to establish the date. James
Hook signed this 17k0 petition."

JAMES HOCK1', Captain
Son of John Hook\ Family If, p, 306.

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F AM III V

JAMES HOOT, Captain, was b, early in 171*9 in Frederick
Co., Md. ; d. 23 Jan, 1521* in Greene Co,, Penna.; *.,1765,

Mary Lyeth (Lieth, Leith, Iyth), b, in Prinre George Co,,

Md,, 11 Sept. 171*3; d. in Ore ere Co,, Penna. 30 Jan, 1919,

She waa a dan, of Pobert lyeth ( Lyth) and hi a wife Sarah
Lakln, and grand daughter of Abraham Lakln and hi a wife
Martha Lee. Martha Lee waa b, 20 June 1609 the dau, of
William and Ann Lee of Cold Spring Manor in Prince George
Co,, Hd, (See Oueen Ann Pariah Racorda, Prince George Co,,
alao the Latter of Rev. Benjamin Lakln, 1767-151*9, written
in 161*7 that will be found in the book "Capt, Janas Hook of
3reene Co,, Penn.", published in 1951 by Jaeea W. Hook.)

Juki Hook1*, in later life always referred to a a Capt,
James Hook, wa a left fatherleaa at the age of 12 and mar¬
ried at age 16, hie wife being five years hia senior. He
la said to hare Heed with hia uncle James Hook for a time
after hia father's death and, after hie marriage, upon the
farm willed to him by hia father. Sometime between 1771
and 1779 he removed to what later becmie Greene Co,, Pinna.
Deeds in Frederick Co,, Mi, show that he disposed of his
Maryland property to hia wife’s uncle Abraham Lakln, to hia
brother John Snowden Hook^ and to hie cousin James Samuel
Hook, the Lakln deed being dated 20 Aug. 1771 (Liber 0, folio
910, Frederick Co,, Hd, Deeds) and the others 10 April 1775
mid 17 June 1779 reapectl wly , (Liber BD, folio 606, Fred¬
erick Co., Md. Deeds,) On 17 June 177 ^ the deed of James
and Mary Hook to Abraham Lakln dated 20 Aug. 1771 waa con¬
firmed, probably to correct some error in the earlier deed,
(Liber BD, folio 1*06, Frederick Co,, Md, Deeds,)

James Hook believed thet hia new home was in Virginia,

He Joined the Virginia Militia and became a captain. When
the Revolutionary War came he recruited a company for the
13th Virginia Regiment on the Continental Line commanded by
Colonel William Crawford and was comissioned its Captain
on 19 Dec. 1776. He waa in active service until the autumn
of 1778 and took part in the battles of Brandywine and
Germantown and recel^md pay in Jan, 1778 which support# the

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tradition that he was at Valley Forge part of the time, at
least, di ring the memorable winter of 1777 and 1778.

Military certificate #9869 (Va. State Library) says on its
container envelope that his services began on 1 Jan. 1776
and ended on the 3rd of Nov, 1783. Most of the year. 1776
saw him with his militia regiment which after being fully
recruited was attached to the 13th Va, Continental Line.

On 12 Feb. 182U Capt. Hook was awarded 1*000 acres of bounty
land by the State of Virginia for his Rev. War services.
(Military Cert., Book 3, p* 123) In its session of 1835-36
the House of Delegates of Va. (Document 6, p. 90, 1835-36)
declared that the heirs of Capt. James Hook were entitled
to additional bounty land. On 16 July 1867 "Mary Graves
widow”, describing herself as ”the last surviving heir at
law of James Hook, Captain in the Continental Line of Va.
during the war of the Revolution” demanded and received a
warrant for the additional land and was granted 1237 acres
for which she accepted script instead of land. (Military
Cert. #9869, Va. State Library.) During his absence in
war time his family remained on the frontier seeking refuge
at Ankrum Fort, or Jackson Fort, slightly farther away, when
an Indian attack was impending. It is said that the Hook
family owned one of the separate cabins at Jackson Fort
which had been built by Richard Jackson, a nephew by mar¬
riage of Capt, James Hook. The latter fort was comprised of
a series of log cabins enclosing a hollow square with window
and door openings on the enclosed sides only and port holes
only on the exposed sides.

Capt. Hook^ owned many farms in and about Waynesburg.

He was the first sheriff of Greene County when it was
established in 1796. He was a signer of the petition to
the Continental Congress in 1783 praying that body to
establish a new state of Westsylvania to embrace all land
formerly claimed concurrently by Virginia and Pennsylvania,
The dispute between these two states had been settled in
principle in 1779 tut the line was not run until 1781*
causing no end of trouble between the settlers who claimed
allegiance first to one state and then the other as best
suited their selfish interests. Capt. Hook, along with Rev.
John Corbly and others, opposed the excise tax imposed on
spiritous liquors by the new federal government in 1791*

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When the soldiers care to quell the rebellion, James Hook^
secreted himself In the woods end was not taken, but Rev.
John Corbly, Esquire Sedgwick and others did not fare so
well. They were marched to Philadelphia, subjected to trial
and released to get home as best they could. The people
were outraged and in a rebellious mood and Prof. Waychoff
in one of his published accounts says that, after the
soldiers had departed, James Hook^ together with Albert
Oallatln, Colonel Minor, John Cannon and others, all of whom
had been strong opponents of the tax, Joined In efforts to
calm the public clamor.

Capt. Hook^ was one of thirty civic minded citiaens of
Waynes burg who met on 2 Mar. IP 11 and established a sub¬
scription school to be known as the Franklin School. Capt.
Hook was one of the subscribing members to be replaced the
following year by his son James.

Capt. Hook remains d loyal to the church of his fathers.
On 1 Sept. 1610, as a Vestryman of the Episcopal Church at
Carmichael, Ones ns Co., Penna., he signed a deed that
transferred the church's property to the Greene Academy , a
forerunner of the present Waynesburg College. (Deed Book 2,
p. 500, Greene Co., Penna.) The church did not survive.

The children of Obtain Hook, for the moet pert, became
Methodists.

Capt. Hook14 married secondly about 1616 the widow of
George Roach and dau. of William and Mary (Smith) Miller of
Baltimore. She was bom in 1756 and died 29 Hay 16?3. (See
Or a ham -Or las a Family of Greene Co., Penna.) There was no
issue by this marriage. (See the book "Capt. James Hook of
Greene Co., Penna." by James V. Hook.)

The children of Capt. James4 and Mary (lyeth) Hook

were r

(1) John Hook*', b. in Frederick Co., Md. 1 July 1766; d#,
near Augusta, Bracken Co., Ky., 19 Jan. 1650; m.

1781a in what is now Greene Co., Penna., Hannah Morris,
b. h Jan. 1767) prob. In Ireland; d. 11 Apr. 1636.

Gov. Janes Garrard appointed him Capt. in the ?6th
Reg. on 17 Sept. 1796. His substantial estate at
death Included forty slaves whom he divided among
his children at his death. His Bible recorded eleven

children as follows; (1) Mary Hook , b. 27 Mar* 1785;
m* Saimel Poe; (2) Rebecca Hook6, b. 21 Dec. 1788; d.
27 July 1855; m. 18 Oct. 1810, John Marsh, b. 6 Aug.
1789; d. 29 Apr. 1827* Family of 3 sons and 3 dau,
lived rear Laurel, Clermont Co., Ohio; (3) James
Hook6, b. 16 Jan. 1790; d. 1 Aug. 1813; m. and had 5
children; (h) Sarah Hook6, b* 11 Mar. 1792; d, 1 Jan.
i860; m. 5 May 1825, John Taylor and had sons and
1 dau.; (5) John Hook6, b. 28 Nov, 179U; (6) Eleanor
Hook^, b. 5 Apr. 1797; d. unmarried 25 July i860;

(7) Hannah Hook6, b, 17 July 1799; m, Solomon Taylor
and had 6 sons and 3 dau,; (8) Samuel Hook6, b. 6 Mar
1801; d. 19 Sept. 1829; (9) Elizabeth Hook6, b. 13
Oct. 1803 ; d. lli June 1880; m. Daniel Byers; (10)
Stephen Hook6, b. 12 May 1806; d. 21 Jan. 18 7U 5 m.
Nancy Heck and raised four sons; (11) Martha Hook6,
b. 22 Aug. 1809; d. 1827.

(2) Samuel Hook'*, b. prob. 1770; d. prob, 13 Oct. 1797,
aged 27.

(3) James Hook , b. about 1772; d. after I838; m. about
1795, Charlotte Morris, b. 3 Mar. 1775; d. 13 May
1827. She was a dau. of Richard Morris, b. 3 Jan.
17li8 and his wife Mary Seals. He was a man of
wealth and prominence in Greene Co., Penna. Child¬
ren; (1) Sarah Hook6, b. 28 Oct. 1796; d. 2 Aug, l81i9
m. 7 Feb. 1818, John Gainer, b. 6 Nov, 1795; d. 1
Sept. 1852; (2) Benedict Hook6, d. before I8I16; m. 29
Apr. I82li, Eliza Adams, b. 25 Jan. 1801, the dau. of
Robert and Rebecca (Blackmore) Adams. Had family of
1 dai . and 2 sons, the latter two sons moving to Iowa
(3) Jesse Hook6, b. 7 Apr. 1800; d, 1878; m. Hi July
1825, Lucy Burbridge, b. 22 Apr. 180b; d. 17 May
i860. She was a dau, of Thomas and Catherine (Work¬
man) Burbridge, The family was a prosperous one in
Wayne sburg. He was president of the Farmers and
Drovers Bank of Waynesburg, also one of the founders
of Waynesburg College. Raised family of 5 sons and
four daughters; (U) Enos Hook6, b, 3 Dec. 180b; d.

16 July l81il; m, Mary Dill, b. 1 Mar, 1808; d. 25 Nov

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1880; no children. He was a member of congress 183$,
re-elected I81j0 but resigned Just before his death;

( 5) John Hook^, b. 1*06; d. 26 June 1838; m. 9 Jan.
1828, Nancy Ada», b. U Mar. 1809; d. 9 Sept. 1889,
had 3 sons and 2 daus.; (6) Thoieas Hook^, and had
children Ignatius and Charlotte; (7) Arthur Hoak^,
lired in Cincinnati, Ohio; (8) Shadrach Hook^, n.

Miss Adamson and of issue had a dau. Charlotte; (9)
Ignatius Hook^, b. 29 Sept. 1813; d. 10 Sept. 1826;

(10) Hiram Hook* , m. Sarah Compson, of issue a dau.
Charlotte Hook; (11) Charlotte Hook^, b. 1817; d.
1889; n. 2 Apr. 18iil, Charles Bower, o. 7 Mar. 1806;
d. 1889, had three sons and three dsus.; (12) Israel
Hook6, b. If 36.

S.r.h Hook^, d. 1027 ; a. about 1001, Barnett Rinehart,
b. in Greene Co., Penna., 8 Sept. 1777. Children,

(1) James B. Rinehart^, b. 22 Aug. 1802; d. in
Oekaloosa, I ova 29 Mar. lfc79| m. 26 hsc. 1826 at
Wsyneafcxjrg, Pa., Delilah £agon, b. in Warnesburg, 21
Mar. 1809; d. in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 7 0#c. 1878. James
Rinehart read law in the >&*• office with Pres. James
Buchanan, was admitted to the Bar and was s lawyer
and Judge of a lower court in Iowa. They raised a
family of 1 son an'* 9 daus.; (?) Simon Rinehart*5, t.
22 Feb. 1°09; d. 1 Sept. 1881; r, Hannah Morria, b.
1809; d. 1893 and had one son James R. Rinehart, b.
I**1?; 4. 1910; (3) Samuel Rinehart^, a. Mary Eagon;

(11) Lucy 9. Rinehart^, b, 10 Fsb. 1810; m. James
Oreen and had a son William Green; (9) Mary Rinehart^,
b. Dec. 1011) \ 17 Apr. ttbTe

Stephen Hook , b. in what la now Greene Co., Bsnna.,

19 Aug. 1780; 4. In Parry Co., Ohio, 3 Mar. 1896; a.
1st., 10 or 12 Aug. 1803, Anne Bubah (Annzube) Grant,
b. In New Jersey, 31 Jen. 1786; d. in Greene Co.,
Penna. or Carrol Co., Ohio, 18 Oct. 1816; 2nd.,

9 Feb. 1818, Margaret Bodkin, fc. KJ July 1791; d. 23
May I81i2 ; 3rd., Rebecca Clue by wham there was no

laaue. (Set Family VI, page 320 for children.)

(6) Israel Hook , m. Mary. Shown with family in the 1810

and 1820 census of Greene Co., Pa. Thought to have
removed to Kentucky.

(7) Daniel Hook'’, b. 11 June 1782; d. 8 July 1867 in Greene

Co., Penna.; m.,8 Sept. 1808, Ann Nancy Kent, b. 18
Oct. 178^; d. lb May 1872. She was a dau. of Thomas
and Ann (Ralston) Kent. Daniel Hook was a Justice
of the Peace in Greene Co. for more than thirty years
and a pillar in the Methodist Church. His family
consisted of a son who died in infancy and a dau.
Mary, b. 22 June 1815; d. 30 May 1891, who m. Peter
Kent and bore him five sons and three daughters.

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(8) Arthur Hook , b. probably about 1786; d. in Greene Co.,

Penna., 20 Jan. 1820; m., 12 Apr. 1812, Catherine
Kent, b. 8 Feb. 1787; d. 27 May 1866. She was a
dau. of Thomas and Ann (Ralston) Kent. Children;

(1) Samuel Hook6, b. 31 Dec. 1812; d. 13 Nov. 1897;
m., 18 Apr. 1839, Sarah Scott, b. lb Oct. 1817; d.

18 Oct. 1903# Family of 3 boys and 7 girls lived
in Vigo Co., Indiana; (2) John T. Hook , b. 20 Jan.

18 H; d, 3 Nov. 1883; m.,lb Jan. 1836, Eliza Inghram,
b. 13 July 1817; d. b May 1901, a dau. of William
and Sarah (Adams) Ingram. Family of b boys and 6
girls lived in WTaynesburg, Penna.; (3) James Hook^,
b. 8 July 1815; d. 23 June 1895; m. Vienna Herring,
b. 2b May 1821; d. 2b Apr. 1897. Family of b boys
and 5 girls lived at Terra Haute, Indiana; (b) Thomas
Kent Hook^, b. 20 Nov, 1816; d. 11 Oct. 1888; m. 1st.
name not known; m. 2nd., Anna Conklin Greenfield who
d. 28 May 1895. Went to Calif, in I8b9. No issue
by either marriage; (5) Sarah Hook^, b. 13 Feb. 1818;
d. 15 Oct. 189^; m. Job Ridgeway, b. 3 Apr. 181b.
Family of 5 boys and 5 girls lived at Jefferson, Pa.

(9) Thomas Hook'’, d. 1837; m. probably, Mary Ann Adams

and died without issue,

(10) Mary Hook^. On 12 July 1867 before the court of Nor¬

folk, Va., one Mary Graves represented herself to be

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"the lest surviving heir of James Hook, a Capt. In
the Continental Army of Virginia during the war of
the devolution". (Military Cert. *^06$, Vs. State
Library.)

(11 and 12) It has been sai'4 that Capt. James Hook had

one dau. who married a Ferre and another who married
a Slater but no records have teen found.

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£

STEPHEN HOCK'5

Son of James Hook^1, Captain, Family V, p. 313.

FAMILY VI

STEPHEN HOOK , b, in what is now Greene Co., Penna,,

15 Aug. 1730? d, in Perry Co., Ohio, 3 Mar. 1856; m. 1st.,

10 or 12 Aug, 1803, Anne Subah Grant (the day date in the
old family Bible is blurred and the name written Anna S,
Grantt) b, 31 Jan. 1786 at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey;
d., probably in Carrol Co,, Ohio, 18 Oct. 1816, He m. 2nd.,
S Feb. 1818, Margaret Bodkin, b. IS July 1791; d. 23 May
I8li2 ; m. 3rd., 17 Nov. 181*6, Rebecca Clum by whom there were
no children.

For many, many years a tradition persisted in the Hook
family that Anna Subah Grant was a half sister of the father
of the 18th president, General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1953
Mrs, Florence Sturges Mcllvaine of Washington, Penna., a
descendant of Capt, James Hook and a capable historical
researcher, while reviewing the Westland Friends Meeting
Records found that Anna Subah (Grant) Hook was born Annzube
Grant, the daughter of the Ouaker family of James and
Margery (Smith) Grant who had come to southwestern Penna.
from Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1795# Pursueing this
lead, this writer consulted the Friends Meeting (Ouaker)
records of New Jersey, Western Pennsylvania and Virginia
and obtained so much data on the Grant, Smith and collateral
families that he put it together in the book ’’Smith, Grant
and Irons Families of New Jersey’s Shore Counties” which can
be found in most of the larger Genealogical and Historical
libraries in this country.

The tradition of relationship with President Grant
stemmed from sources antedating the Civil War and was much
too strong to have been based entirely on wishful thinking.
Noah Grant, the grandfather of the president, did remove to
southwestern Pa. about 1790 and lived not far from Capt.
James Hook whose son Stephen married Ann Subah Grant. The
latterfs father, James Grant, also lived near by and very
likely all three families were acquainted. The tradition
could have grown out of a confusion of the names, Noah and
James through stories handed down over the years from family
to family.

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James Grant, father of Annzube was bom in New Jersey
about 1752 and died in Greene Co., Pa., between 26 Dec# 1823
when his will was written and 2 Feb. 1827 when it was proved,
probably in 1826-27# He was a son of John Grant Jr. and
his wife Sarah Irons, both memoers of the Friends (Quaker)
Church in New Jersey# James Grant married, second intentions
filed at the Little Egg Harbor, N. J« Friends Meeting, Ui
Nov* 1776, Margery Smith, b# 12 May 1760, dau# of Anthony
Smith, b# 26 July 1723, and his wife Lydia Willets, b. 16
Jan# 1726, dau# of Timothy Willets- (Hop#"', Richard^*) and
his wife Judith. Anthory Smith waa a son of Thomas and
Mary Smith of Cape May County, N# J# The Anthory Smiths
and Timothy Willets were members of the Friends (Quaker)
Church. (See "Smith, Grant and Irons Families of New
Jersey * s Shore Counties" by James W# Hook, published
privately In 1955.)

Stephen and A nr rube (Anna Subah) Hook, on 10 June IP 12,
bought of Sylvarus Smith, for tl.OOO, a tract of land on
the south fork of Tenmile Creek called "Smithfield" con¬
taining, after deleting 12 acres previously sold to
Stephen Hook, 160 acres# (Deed Book 2, p# 64*, Greene Co#,
Pa#) Stephen Hook and his wife Anntuba (Arm Subah) sold
this land to Joseph Waggoner, 17 May 1°16, for exactly what
they had paid for it, it being land originally warranted
to James Hook^and sold to Sylvanus Smith, 25 Oct. 1800#

(Deed Book 3, p* 1»09, Greene Co., Pa#) Immediately there¬
after they removed to Carrol Co., Ohio where they settled
on s farm of 81.58 acres in what is now Carrol County,

Ohio, patented to Stephen Hook by the government on 3 June
1816# This farm was discrlted as the east half of the
south west Quarter of section two, township fourteen, range
six of Carrol County, Ohio. This would locate it about
four miles south of the town of Carrolton. He lived here
until about 181*0 when he moved to Perry County, Ohio where
his sons Samuel^ and Sylvanus*'’ lived# In 18Ui hit sons
Jamea^, Danlal^ and John^ removed to Vinton County, Ohio
and settled near Allenvllle. The Bible of Stephen Hook
gives birth, marriage and death dates of hlaeelf and hie
first two wives as ell u birth and some marriage and
death dates of his children. Later Hook Bibles complete*
the record down to the present time, (See the genealogies,

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"James Hook and Virginia Eller” by James W. Hook, 1929, and
"Capt. James Hook of Greene County, Pa." by James W. Hook,
1952, for forebears and descendants of Stephen Hook. Also
see Hook Bible records in Vol. 108, pp. 71-7U, New England
Historic and Genealogical Register.)

The children of Stephen Hook'' and his first wife Anna
Subah (Annzube) Grant were:

(1) Samuel Hook6, b, 5 May 180k; d. 27 July 1873;

m.

Nov. 1826, Rebecca Carlisle, b. 9 May 1796; d. 6
June 1871. Family lived near Hemlock, Perry Co.,
Ohio. Children, (1) Sarah Hook?, b. 11 June 1827;
d. lli May 1887; m. 21 Nov. 18UU, George Gaver, b.

10 May 1820; d. 10 Sept. 1870 and had a family of

6 sons and 8 daughters; (2) Israel Hook?, b. 10 Sept
1828; d. 27 March 1899; m. 13 Sept. 18U9 > Charlotte
Tharp, b. 8 May 1833 ; d. 12 Apr. 1903 and had a
family of 2 sons and 7 daus.; (3) Isabella Hook?, m.
27 Nov. I81i8 George Welch; (li) Anna Subah Hook?, b.

11 Apr. 1833; d. 17 June I8li9; (9) Margaret Hook?,
m. 23 Nov. 18 9U, Samuel Lyons; (6) Mary Hook?, m.

6 March 1898, Daniel Henderson; (7) Samuel Hook?, b.
21 Oct. 16U0 ; d. 18 Apr. 1901; m. 18 March 1862,

La vim Hazleton. No issue.

(2) James Grant Hook , b. in Greene Co., Penna., 7 Sept.

1809 ; d. in Wapello Co., Iowa, I4 Sept. 188U ; m. 6
March 1828, Sarah Lyle, b, in Harrison Co., Ohio, 3
Oct. 1807; d, in Wapello Co., Iowa, U Aug. 1882.

(See Hook Family VII, page 32h for children.)

(3) Daniel Hook6, b, 9 Nov. 1807; d. 17 July i860; m.

1836, Elizabeth Shuman, b. 1* June 1811; d. 9 Sept.
1887. No children.

(li) Sylvanus Hook^, b. 30 July 1809; d. lli May 1862; m.
1836, Nancy Redmond. No children.

(9) John Hook^, b. 2 Apr. 1811; d. 2h Jan. 1887; m. Iydia
Shuman, b. 10 Feb. 18 lU ; d. 31 Oct. 1906. Children,
(1) Elizabeth Ann Hook?, b. 13 Sept. 1835; d. 28 Dec

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1897; m. Clinton Arnold and lived near Breckinridge,
Mo,; several issue; (2) Frances Hook^, b. 1 Jan. 1837;
d, 18 Kay 1097; m. Richard Clements, b. 183?. No
issue; (3) Angelina Hook', b. 9 Apr. 1839; d. 2 Sept.
1918. Never married; (1*) Sarah E. Hook', b. 20 June
181*2; d. 13 Kay 1920. Never married; (5) Barnett A.
Hook', b. 17 Apr. 181*5, a Civil War veteran, Co* C*,
li*8th Ohio Vol. Infantry and later editor of the
McArthur (Ohio) Democrat Inouired. He did not marry.

(6) Stephen Hook Jr.^, b. 2 Feb* 1813; d. 5 April 16U*.

(7) Iaraal Hook6, b. 2? Jan. 1815; d. 13 Dee. 1827.

The children of Stephen Hookr and hla second wife,
Margaret Bodkin were:

(8) Anna Subah Hook^, b* 8 April 1819; r., 6 Aug. 101*0,

Hugh Lockhart, There were children but their names
not found*

(9) Sarah (took6, b. 12 July 1822; ■., 3 Hay I81jl, John S.

Alwine. There were children but their names not
found*

(10) Arthur Hook6, b. 9 Jan. 1826; d. 18 S*pt. 1827.

(11) Cno. Hook6, b. 10 Oct. 1829; d. 8 April 181i?,

32 k

JAMES GRANT HOOK6

Son of Stephen Hook"*, Family VI, page 320.

FAMILY VII

JAMES GRANT HOCK , recorded in his father* s Bible as
James Hook, b. in Greene Co., Penna., 7 Sept. 180!>$ d. in
Wapello Co., Iowa, h Sept. 18 8U ; m. 6 March 1828, Sarah
Iyle, b. in Harrison Co., Ohio, 3 Oct. 1807; d. in Wapello
Co., I<x*a U Aug. 1883. She was a dau, of William and Mary
(Maholm) Lyle. William Iyle was b. 18 Jan. 1777 in New
Brunswick, N. J. and died 6 Feb. 181*9 in Vinton Co., Ohio.

He married, about l80l*, in Cadiz, Ohio, Mary Maholm, b. 21
March 1783, in Little Britain Twsp. of Lancaster Co., Fenna.
and d. in Vinton Co., Ohio, 26 July 1853* She was a dau.
of Samuel Maholm, a Rev. War veteran, b. 17^9/60; d. I838,
and his wife Jane, and a granddaughter of James Maholm who
was an early settler in Lancaster Co., Penna. from northern
Ireland. William Lyle was a son of John Iyle Jr. who came
from Scotland to New Jersey with his father and mother and
brother Robert in 171*1. (See MCapt. James Hook of Greene
Co,, Penna.” for more about the Lyle and Maholm families.)

James Grant Hook moved with his father and mother from
Greene Co., Penna. to Carrol Co., Ohio in 1816. Here he
lived until 181*1* when he removed to what is now Vinton Co.,
Ohio and settled on a farm near Allenville. He was a tan¬
ner by trade and a shoemaker besides and made all of the
shoes for his family and mary for his neighbors. Five of
his sons fought with the Union forces in the war of the
Rebellion, two of them losing their lives from illness. In
1862 and again in 1861* he and his wife visited their sons
Stephen and William and dau* Mary Ann (Maryann) who had
settled in Wapello Co., Iowa in 185£. During their first
visit they purchased a tract of unbroken prairie land con¬
taining 2l*0 acres which they sold on their second visit to
Harvey Eller^, (Simeon , John^, Peter^, George Michael^).

See Eller Family XIII, page 188.) The town of Farson, Iowa
is now located on this land. When the war ended and sur¬
viving sons had returned, they moved their entire family
with the exception of their son John who remained in Ohio
for the time being, to Highland Township, Wapello Co., Iowa
where they lived the remainder of their lives. They travel-

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led by two prairie schooner*, one driven by James Hook Jr.
and the other by Jesse Ankroa who had married their daughter
Sarah Jane Hook7. Their route took them through Indiana¬
polis, Indiana and Burlington, Iowa. They arrived at their
destination late in October 1865 having been on the road
since Sept. 18. In 1875 they sold their farm, located two
and one half miles south east of Hedrick, Keokuk Co., Iowa,
to their son James Hook Jr.^ and moved to Agency City, Iowa
where their daughter Sarah Jane Ankrom lived. Here they
both died. Both were buried in the Hook family plot in the
Hartinsburg Cemetery located in Wapello Co., one and one
half miles south of Hartinsburg, Iowa.

Children of James Grant Hookh and Sarah (Lyle) Hook

were i

(1) Mary Ann Hook^, b. 9 July I829j d. h Apr. 1857; m, U

Aug. 1818, James Clark, b. 1829. He was a brother
of the wives of Stephen and William Hook next below.
Family moved in covered wagon from Ohio to Wapello
Co., Iowa in 1855. Children, (1^ William Clark®, b.
1852; (?) Henry Clark®, b. 105L; (j) Clinton Clark®,
b. 1856; (1) Sarah Jane Clark®, b. 1857; m. Hr. Harter.

(2) Stephen Hook^, b. 29 ^sc. 1830; disappeared in 1867 and

never again heard from; m. 3 Jan. 1855, Sarah Clark,
b. 28 Feb. lp}?; d. 20 Bee. 1895. Served In war of
Rebellion in the 1st. Iowa Cavalry. Family moved in
covered wagon from Vinton Co., Ohio to Wapello Co.,
Iowa in 1P5C# Children, (1) James Madison Hook®, b.

5 Hov. lp5^; d. Aug. 1028 j m. 27 Apr. lp77, Laura
Townsend, b. 3 Oct, 185$. Family lived at Macomb,

Mo. and had a family of 2 sons and 3 daus., one son
dying young. (2) William Clinton Hook®, b, U July
1858; m. 8 Feb. 1878, Sarah Jane Baker. Family lived
at Laporte City, I<*a and had a family of 5 sons and
!i daus.; {}) Martha Ann Hook®, b, 5 SeDt. i860; d.

12 Sept. 1863; (li) Mary Elisabeth Hook , b. 6 July
1862; d. Feb. 1936; m. Stanley Fisher, d. Mar. 1926.
Family lived at Plalnview, Hebr. and had a family of
1 sons and ii daus.

(3) William Hook', b. 2h Aug. 1832; d. 23 Dec. 1905; m.

1st*, 8 May 1853, AiTy Clark; b, 28 Feb. 1833; d. June
1870* Married 2nd,, Saphronie Barnett, b. in Ky* in
1837; d, in Taylor Co,, Iowa in 1912. Family moved
in covered wagon from Vinton Co,, Ohio to Wapello Co,,
Iowa in 1855, later moving to Nodaway Co,, Mo, and
in 1892 to Taylor Co., Iowa, Children by first wife,
(1) Infant son®, b, 18 5k; d. immediately; (2) Cynthia
Ann Hook8, b. 1855; d. 3 Feb. 1929; m. Oct. 1873,
Benjamin H, Woodbury, b, lli Oct. 18U6; d, 25 Dec,

1936, a son of John and Mary Woodbury, Family of 3
sons and 5 daus, lived at Lawrence, Kan; (3) Nancy
Hook8, b. 9 Oct. 1857; d. 15 Apr. 1909; m. 1875,
Charles Taylor, b, 30 Dec. 185/;; d. 1921. Family of
3 sons and 2 daus. lived at Clearfield, Iowa; (k)

Sarah Hook®, b. 1859; d. 1859; (5) Lincoln Hook®, b,
i860; d. 1901; m, Mollie McVicker, b, i860; d, 15
May 1937. No issue. (6) Emma Hook®, b. 30 Sept.

1862; d. 30 Sept, 1933; in. 1889, Colonel Eisiminger,
b, in Andrew Co., Mo., 10 Jan. 1862; d. in Des Moines,
Iowa, 2 Oct. 1932. Family, one dau, Armide, b. 13
Nov. 1893; m. 1920, S. V. Schauweker; (7) James Hook®,
b. 186k; d. 6 Jan. 1928; m. 23 Dec. 1887, Alice
Pertle, b. 1867. Family of 1 son and 2 daus. lived
near St, Joseph, Mo.; (8) Eva Jane Hook®, b. 1866;
d, 1912; m, Byron Eiginoire. Had family of one son
named Forest Vincent Eiginoire and lived at Des Moines,
Iowa. Children by Saphronie Barnett, his second wife,
(9) George William Hook®, b. 1871; d. after 1938; m,,
1st. in 1900, Jessie Boyd, b. 1878; d. 1910; m. 2nd.,
in 1917, Edna Eckler Walker, Children by 1st. mar¬
riage, 1 son named John^ and k daus, and by 2nd. mar¬
riage, 3 sons and 2 daus. (10) Martha (Mattie) Hook®,
b. 187k; deceased; m, 1st, Dr. F. P, Carey, b. 1850;
d. 1933; m. 2nd,, Homer Coughlin. Family lived at
Minneapolis, Minn. Issue by 1st, marriage, 2 daus.

No issue by second marriage; (11) Walter Hook®, b.

1875; d. 1875.

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(k and 5) , twin sons unnamed, b, 19 May 183k; d. immediately.

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Halter 3eebe Hook7, b. 23 Apr. 1035? d. 2 March 1063
of smallpox while home on furlough during the war of
the Rebellion.

(7) Sarah Jm e Hook7, b. 6 Sept. 1037; d. 2 Jan. 1920; m.

31 Jan. 1065, Jesse Ankrom, b. in Noble Co., Ohio,
1039; d. at Agency City, Wapello Co., Iowa, 10 June
1925. Children, (1) Mary Matilda Ankrom^, b. 29 Noe.
1065; d. Noe. 1929; n. 29 Noe. 1000, W. W. Ruckman;
d. 5 Sept. 1922. Family with one son lixwd in
Ottumwa, Iowa; (2) Anna Ankrom , b. 25 Oct. 1071,
now deceased; m. 20 Aug. 109L, Chester Long, d. 1939.
No issue. Family Heed at Oaaha, Nebr.; (3) Mattie
Ankrom*, b. 31 March 1077; d. Jan. 1930; *• Benjamin
Toung. Family, of one son and one dau.y lived at
Ottumwa, Iowa.

(0) James Hook7, b, in Carrol Co., Ohio, 30 Sept. 1039; d.
in Wapello Co., Iowa, 30 June 1905; 21 Noe. 1067

In Wapello Co., Iowa., Virginia Eller, b. in Wilkes
Co., N. C. 10 Oct. 101i5; d. in Wapello Co., Iowa, 30
Oct. 1097. (See Hook Family VUT, pages 329-339 for
children.)

(9) John Hook7, b. 23 Oct. 10lil; A. 22 Not. 1919; a. 1002,

Mary Fowler, b. 1060. Ha sereed in the 65th Ohio
Vol. Infantry in the war of the Rebellion and lived
in later life at Independence, Ho. where he lies
tairied. No issue.

(10) Alexander Hook7, b. 9 Dec. 10ii3; d. 30 Jan. 1063 In

the Armor hospital at Oallatln, Tern, while in the
service of his country.

(11) Nancy Hook7, b. 2li March 10L6; d. 1919; m. 1st., Mike

LaChapelle who was taken ill in Montreal, Can. and
died; m. 2nd., Oeorge W. Mayes. Issue by first mar¬
riage, (1) Smuel LaChapelle d. lb Dec. 1932; m.
Nov. 1099, Lulu Smith of Hedrick, Iowa. Family lived
in Des Moines, Iowa; (2) Lucy LaChapelle*, d. young;
(3) William LaChapelle*, d. young. No issue by

second marriage*

Martha Hook7, b. 18 March 18U9 J d. 23 Feb. 1923. She
never married.

Thomas Jefferson Hook , b. 26 June 185k; d. 22 May 1913;
m. Kate Baker, b. 1 Oct. 18 £6; d. 1931a. Family lived
in Creighton, Nebr. Children, (1) Edwin G. Hook®, b.
1a Sept* 1875; m. 1st., 8 July 1897, Jennie L. Bumes;
issue, one son Hariy M. Hook;^m. 2nd., Anna Marie
Guy by whom there were two daughters, Florence
Catherine^ and Helen Frances.^ (2) Fred Hook®, b. 8
Dec. 1876; d. 10 Feb. 1913; Spanish Am. War veteran;
m. June 1899 Maude Harper, d. U May 1938. Issue,
one son, Roland Harper Hookf who m, and had two sons.
(3) Alice Marie Hook®, b. 21a Aug. 1879; m. 21; Aug.
1899, George Leslie Harper. No children. ( h ) Lloyd
Thomas Hook®, b. 27 Oct. 1881a; m. lii Aug. 1911, Maude
Meyers. No children.

Samuel Hook^, b. 18 March 1857; d. 1910; m. Elizabeth
Baker, sister of Kate Baker next above, b. 31 Dec.
1858; d. 11a July 1903 * Children, (1) Claude J. Hook®,
b. 3 July 1881a; d. 3 Aug. 1902; (2) Snowden Robert
Hook®, b. 1 Apr. 1893; World War I veteran in Co. C.,
18 Engineers. He lived in Calif.

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JAKES HOOK7

Son of Janes Grant Hook^, Faaily 711, p. 3 2L.

FAKILT VIII

JAKES HOOK^, recorded in his father's Bible as Janes
Kook and in his own Bible as Janes Hook Jr., was bom in
Carrol Co., Ohio, 30 Sept. 1039 and died in Wapello Co.,

Iowa, 30 June 1905. He married, 21 Vov. 1867, in Wapello
Co., Iowa, Virginia Eller, bom in Wilkes Co., N. C., 18 Oct.
18Ja5; d. in Wapello Co., Iowa 30 Oct. 1897. Both lie buried
in the Hook fanilj plot in the Kartinsburg Cemetery located
one and one half riles south of MartinsUirg, Iowa. Virginia
Eller was the first daughter and third child of Harvey and
Mary Caroline (Vannoy) Eller who emigrated to Iowa in a
cowered wagon in 1652. (See Eller Family XIII, oages 188-
2 SI.) James Hook attended the schools of 7intcn County,
Ohio, clerked in a store and helped his father on the hone
farm. At President Lincoln's first call for volunteers he
enlisted 20 Apr. 1861 in the 18th Ohio Vol. Infantry for
three month's service. He was honorably discharged 28 Aug.
1661. In the sprint of 1862 he accompanied his parents on
a visit to his sister and two brothers in Iowa and shortly
after his return home enlisted, 9 Sept. 1862, in the 7th
Ohio Vol. Cavalry and served continuously until he was
mustered out of the service at Raleigh, N. C. on 22 June
1865. His regiment was with Gen. Sherman at the siege of
Atlanta and with Generals Schofield and Thomas in the camp¬
aign, after Atlanta, that succeeded in destroying Hoods
Army. He served part of the time as a dispatch carrier and
was one of the volunteers who crept through the Confederate
lines to carry s headquarter's dispatch to (General Burnside
when he was besieged at Knoxville, Tern. In the fall of
1865 he moved with his parents in a prairie schooner to
Highland Township, Wapello Co., Iowa where he married, raised
a large family and became a prosperous farmer and fine stock
raiser and a prominent and respected cltlxen. He taught
school durirg the winter for several years after arriving in
Iowa. In 1875 he purchased the home of his parents in High¬
land Twsp. of Wapello Co., Iowa, thereafter purchasing
adjacent land until he owned one of the best and most pro¬
ductive farms in the county. He was a leader in the actlvl-

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ties of his community and represented the electorate in many
county and state conventions of the Republican party of
which he was a staunch member. He was successively a trustee
president and treasurer of the North Union School District
of Highland Twsp. in Wapello Co. for fifteen years or more.

He was for mary years a Justice of the Peace and the settler
of many local ouarrels and was known among his neighbors as
Souire Hook. He was several times commander of the J. M.
Hedrick Post of the Grand Airy of the Republic. He was a
breeder of short horn cattle, English Shire, Morgan and
Ensign horses, importing some of the sires from England and
Belgium* In 1901 he married his second wife Caroline
Andrews, born Ebelsheiser, who d. in July 1905, a bare month
after his own death, after long illness and hospitalization*
There was no issue by this marriage. Early in 1905 he went
to Big Horn Co., Wyoming and purchased land on the Germania
Bench near Burlington and entered upon many additional acres
which he expected his children to homestead, an expectation
not to be carried out. The land was located in the oil
section of Wyoming and today is very valuable. Both James
and his wife Virginia lie burled side by side in the Hook
family plot in the Marti ns burg Cemetery in Wapello Co. one
and one half miles south of Martinsburg, Iowa*

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The children of James Hook and Virginia (Eller) Hook

were:

(1) Mary Hook^, b. 27 Aug. 1868; d. in Humboldt, Iowa, 23

March 1897; m., 19 Oct. 1892, Henry Edgar Passig, a
banker of Humboldt, Iowa, b. 1 March 1869; d. in
Upland, Calif, 28 Dec. 19^7. He m. 2nd,, the only
surviving sister of his deceased wife. Mary Hook
Passig attended Iowa State College for two years,

1890 and 1891, after which she was a teacher in some
of the public schools in Wapello Co., Iowa. She was
a talented writer and a devoted Christian. Children,
one son, b. 17 Aug. 1893 who died the same day.

(2) John Hook9, b. 18 Apr, 1870; d. in Upland, Calif., 30

Jan, 19U6; m. 1 Nov. 189U, Jennie Lentner, b, 7 Sept,
1873; d. In Upland, Calif. 18 Feb, 181|8. Both buried
in Bellvue Cemetery, Ontario, Calif. She was a dau.

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of John Jacob Lentner and Almira Kirkpatrick. John
Hook attended the Hedrick, Iowa Normal School and
graduated from the Ottusma, Iowa Commercial School
in 1691. After seven years in the field of house
decorating and painting he entered the sales field
which he followed throughout the remainder of his
life, first with the Eureka Elastic Paint Co. of
Chicago, next with the Lincoln Paint and Color Co.
of Lincoln, Nebr., third with the Adams and Eltlng
Co. of Chicago and finally, and until his retirement
in 1930, with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. as
special representative on the West coast. He always
showed an artistic bent and was a cartoonist and
landscape painter of no small ability. Some of his
work was exhibited at the Worlds Pair in Chicago In
1S?3 and ruch of It is scattered among friends whom
he made during his long years of travel while engaged
In the paint business. He retired to his lemon ranch
near Upland, Calif. In 1930 where he died.

Children:

(1) Mary Louise Hook^, b. 17 June 1900; m., 1st.

George H. Hi ns haw , now deceased. She married
2nd., Mack Crosslin. No children by ?nd. mar¬
riage. Children by first marriage, (1) John
Wallace Hlnahaw**0, b. D*c. 1?)^; ( ?) Robert
Eugene Hlnshew*0, b. 19 Sept. 19 ?2.

(2) Max Morris Hook°, b. 21 Nov. 1902; d. U June

1955; m# Esther Arnold. He was aboard the ill-
fated U. S. destroyer "Puller" that with other
destroyers was wrecked off the coast of Calif.
Sept. 1923# He lived on a lemon ranch near
Upland, Calif. Children, (1) Earle Alfred
Hook*0, p. 3 Nov. 19??; unmarried. (?) Louise
Hook*0, b. 21 Sept. l?2li. She graduated from
the S m Francisco State College In 1953 and
presently Is teaching In the San Francisco
schools. (3) John Wallace Hook*0, b. 7 April
1920. He married and had one son and one dau.
He lives In Upland, Calif.

(3) Orin Hook\ b. in Wapello Co., Towa, 13 Feb. 1072; d.

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15 March 19l*2 in Upland, Calif, of pneumonia; buried
beside his first wife at Humboldt, Iowa; m. 1st., 8
March 1905, Pearl Richards, b. 8 July 1881*; d. 20
June 1923, dau. of George W. Richards, b. in Ohio in
1851, and wife whose maiden name was Debolt, b. in
Illinois, 1856. The Richards family resided for many
years in Ottumwa, Iowa. Orin Hook was educated in
the country schools near the parental home. He was
a great lover of horses and a successful farmer. He
left the farm in 1901* and for a few years was part
owner with his father-in-law of a grocery store in
Ottumwa, Iowa. In 1909 he returned to the farm where
he remained until the untimely death of his wife in
1923# During World War I he was appointed by the
Governor of Iowa as Food Administrator in his com¬
munity and received a medal for his work that was
made from metal taken from the first cannon captured
by American troops from the Germans* He was also an
active worker in all Liberty Loan Campaigns. On 19
July 1921* he m. Mrs. Idylmarch Naugle, (nee Rockwell),
formerly of Galesburg, Ill*

Children by 1st. marriage:

(1) Warren Mernie Hook^, b. 1905; d., urm^d, 23 Nov.

1956. He served as a private in the 8th Field
Artillery Cal. State Guard and lived in Los
Angeles, Calif. Buried at Pacific Grove.

Children by 2nd. marriage:

(2) Elizabeth Jean Hook^, b. 2l* Dec* 1925. She

graduated B.S. from the Univ. of Calif, at
Berkeley, 1953, and in 1955 received her M.S.
degree from the same college. She married 10
July 195k, in Heidelberg, Germany, Corporal
George C. Bange, a young engineer stationed
there with the American military forces. The
family is now living in San Francisco* Child¬
ren, (1) Scott Bange^, b. 11 Dec. 1956. I

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(1*) Wallace Hook , b. in Wapello Co., Iowa 12 Jan. 1871*;

d., in Salem, Mo., 26 Sept. 19ii2 and buried in Martins-
burg, Iowa Cemetery; m. 1st., 6 Dec. 1895, Isis Leota

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Edwards, b. 29 Aug. 1877; d. 2 Dec. 1^35. Her
parents were Leri Chesterfield Edwards, b. in
Hopkinsville, Ey., 1835; d# in Pleasant Plains, Iowa,
1898, and Elisabeth Montgomery, b. I836 near Pitts¬
burgh, Pa.; d. 1691a near Salina, Iowa. Her grand¬
parents on her mother’s side were Andrew Montgomery
and Jane Montgomery (nee Courtney), the latter of
whom was b. in County Antrim, Ireland in 1800; m.

2nd., 22 Feb. 1^39, Mrs. Mary B. Don; b. 16 Dec.

I88ii in Sharon Co., Mo., the rimi. of Clem Dooley.

No issue by 2nd. marriage.

Wallace Hook^ attended the country schools near
home until 1891 when he went to CVmha, Nebr. , remain¬
ing two years. In 1691 he attended the Hedrick (Iowa)
Normal School and later the Teachers' Institute in
Ottumwa, Iowa and obtained teacher certificates for
both Wapello and Keokuk Counties. He taught in
various rural schools for several years. In 1^02 he
moved to Ames, Iowa and entered the Iowa State
College where for two years he took the agricultural
course. In 1907 he moved to a farm near Packwood,

Iowa where he remained for eight years. Here he
made experiments in com hybridisation, the results
of which made him a reputation as a com and grain
breeder. In 1912 he wrote a text book on agriculture
for rural schools that was widely need in the com
belt. He also has contributed liberally to fare
papers throughout the count, ry . In 1915 he sold his
Peckwood farm and bought another farm at Ollle, Iowa.
While owning these farms he devoted much of hie time
to teaching. In 1915*16 he was Superintendent of
Schools st Marti ns burg, Iowa. In 1917 he was Manager
of the Hawkeye Seed Compary at Lock ridge, Iowa. In
1918 he entered the Federal Service as County Agri¬
cultural Agent and moved to Missouri. He continued
in this service until the fall of 1921a when he became
a Smith Hughes teacher of Agriculture. He remained
In this work until 1936 when a serious heart attack
forced him to retire. After 1936 he did considerable
writing, mostly for amusement. In the contest to
select s Poet Leureete of the Otarke he waa winner of

fourth prize* Family resided at Salem, Mo* where he
and his family were members of the Methodist Church.

Children, all by first marriage:

(1) Gladys Marie Hook0, b. ll* Dec, 1896, at Hedrick,

Iowa; m., 3 Feb, 193 9, Bert E, Homer, b. 1890.
Family owned a fine farm near Packwood, Iowa
which was sold when the family removed to
Ottumwa, Iowa. In 191*8 the family removed to
San Diego, Calif, where it presently lives.
Children, (1) Edward Eugene Horner^, b. 29
July 1916. He is married and lives in San -
Diego, Calif; (2) Maurice Hook Horne r^, b, 12
Dec. 1917; m. , 8 Aug. 19l*3> Nancy Lee Holmes
of Beverly Hills, Calif., b. 28 July 1921*.

They have a son Peter Hook Homer^, b. 10 Oct.
191*1*; (3) Mary Ann Horner^, b, !i Dec. 1928;
m., 22 Nov. 1992, Virgil Lawton Clemons Jr* of
Sacramento, Calif, and Palm Beach, Fla.

(2) Lorena Margaret Hook0, b. , 12 Nov, 1900, at

Hedrick, I<x*a; m. , 7 March 1918, William S,
Oaks, b. 1897. Family lives on a fine farm
near Monmouth, Ill. Children, (1) Donna Jane
Oaks^, b, 3 June 1919; m., 11 June 19l*l, John
W. Erickson of Champaign, Ill. ; b, 20 Sept.
1919. They have children, (a) Linda Rae Erick¬
son^, b. 7 Dec. 191*9 and (b) Paula Sue Erick¬
son^, b. 1 July 191*8; (2) Patricia Rae Oaks^,
b. 18 June 1929; m., 9 July 19l*3, Harold G.
Thompson, b. 11 Apr. 1921*. They have one dau.,
Carol Jane Thompson^, b. 8 May 191*6; (3)
Laurence Roger Oaks^, b. 16 Jan. 1939; m., 27
Jan. 1996, Nancy Allison Black, dau. of Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald Black of Boise, Idaho. They
have one dau., Susan Lynn Oaks-^, b. 27 Nov.
1996.

(3) Virginia Rae Hook^, b. 2l* Sept. 1902, at Hedrick,

Iowa; m., U* June 1922, George E. Stevens, b.
1901. Family lives at Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Children, (1) Jack Harlan Stevens^, b. 18 Apr.
1921*; m., 23 July 191*9, Beryl Grace Dawkins of

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Blackburn, England; (2) Peggy Ruth Stevens^,
b. 11 Oct. 1926; m., L July 19li6, William E.
Hill, b. 30 July 1923 at Moberly, Ho. He ia
a graduate of the Missouri School of Hines.
Family lives at Ardmore, Ok la, They have
children, (a) honna Leslie Hill11. b. 6 Hay
1050 and (b) Steven William Hill1*, b. Oct.

1951; (3) Philip George Stevens10, b. 1 June

10L2.

(Ij) James Chesterfield Hook0, b. 15 Jan. 1906 at

Ames, Iowa; m. 7 Feb. 1^27, Helen Dorleska Key,
b. 20 July 1007. Family lives at Richland,
Missouri. Children, (1) Susanne LaRue Hook*0,
b. 2? Jan. 1020; m., 1? March 101*6, Jorge
Hector Roxa, b. 19 Feb. 1925 in Paris, France;
(2) Jims Cheaterfield Hook Jr.10, b. 20 July
103?; (3) Svm Carolyn Hook10, b. 9 June I03O;
(I4) Carol Virginia Hook10, twin with Errol Joe,
b. 19 Oct. 19 L2; (5) Errol Joe Hook10, twin
with Carol Virginia, b« 19 Oct. 19L2.

(5) Marvin Eugene Hook^, b. , 21 Jan. 1910 at Packvood,

Iowa; d. 23 Aug. 1913 at Packwood, Iowa.

(6) Wallace A. Hook0, b., 21 Sept. 1916, at Lock-

ridge, Iowa; n., 20 Aug. 1937, Os 11a Faye (Vena,
b. 10 July 190ii (sic). Family lives presently
at San Diemo, Calif. OMMiettf '1) Wallace
Allen Hook10, b. ?0 May 1039; (?) Michael Havld
Hook10, b. 16 March l%0.

(5) Sarah (Sadie) HookP, b. in Wapello Co., Iowa, 22 Feb.

1076; m., 7 Sept. 19014, her bro.-in-law, Henry Edgar
Passlg, b. 1 March 1669, in Sigourney, I<*#a; d. in
Claremont, Calif., 20 Dec. 19li7. He was the son of
Henry Frederick Passlg, a Civil War veteran, as
bugler In Co. F, 5th Iowa Infantry, who was b. in
Schleswig Holstein, Denmark and d. 10 March 1071 in
Sigourney, Iowa. His mother was Katharine Salome
Keller, b. , in Baden, Garnery, 7 Jan. 101i2; d. in
Sigourney, Iowa, h Feb. 1920. His grandparents on
his mother's side were John George Keller, b., in
Baden, Germary, 0 Sept. 1015; d. dy accident at

Sigourney, Iowa, 22 Sept* 187U, and Margaret B*
Yaeger, b. in Baden, Germany, 27 Dec* 1816; d, 20
March 1897. The latter were m. in Baden, lli July
18U0 and emigrated to America between 18U6 and 18U8
and settled in Crawford Co*, Iowa about five years
later*

Sarah (Hook) Passig attended public schools of
Wapello Co., Iowa until 1893 when she spent the
winter with her sister in Humboldt, Iowa and attended
high school. Entered Iowa State College 1895,
graduating 1898 with degree of B.Sc. After the death
of her mother she kept up the home for her father
until 1901, when she joined the faculty of Iowa State
College as instructor in Public Speaking* She intro¬
duced in 1903 and directed the Department of Physical
Education for women in the college and was acting
head of the Department of Public Speaking in the
college in the absence on leave of Professor Adrian
M* Newens, 1902-1903* She resigned her position
with the college at the time of her marriage in 190U*
She at once became active in the affairs of her
community and helped to obtain a free public library
for her town, 1906-1907* She has been an active
member of the Unitarian Church, teacher in its Sun¬
day School, a member of its Board of Trustees, and
a member of the Board of Directors of the Unitarian
Association of the State of Iowa. She was chairman
of the 10th Iowa District Woman’s Suffrage Campaign,
1916-1920, also chairman of that same district of
the Woman’s Division Liberty Loan Campaign, 1917-1919.
She was county chairman of the Finance Committee,

Iowa Red Cross, 1917-1919, and chairman of the County
War Savings Stamp Campaign, 1918. She also served
as member of the Board of Governors of the Iowa
Division of the English Speaking Union of the U, S.,
as Treasurer and third Vice President, Iowa Leage of
Women Voters and as President (two terms) of the
Iowa State College Alumni Association* She is a
member of the Iowa State Historical Association,

P.E«0. Sisterhood and W.R.C. and for several years
served as a member of Speaker’s Bureau of Federated

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Woman's Clubs. She has addressed wary audiences and
is a monologist and public speaker of much talent.

In 1928 her husband retired from his banking work In
Humboldt, Iowa and established a new hone firet in
Upland mid later In Claremont, Calif* No Issue,

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(6) Jesse Hook , b. 1? June 1878; d. 8 Sept. 1880.

(7) Infant, 'iau/, b. 70 S.pt. IMOj d. 72 Sapt. 1880.

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(8) Fredie Hook , b. 3 Jen. 1882; d. 19 March 1883.

(9) Jamas William Hook", b. 9 Jan. 1881<; a. 17 Sapt. 1907

at Fort Dodge , Iowa, Hattie Roeemonl Bechtel, b. at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, 16 Dec, 1885. (See Hook Family
IX, p. 3li 0 .)

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(10) Frank Leslie Hook , b, U July 1886. He attended the

public schools in Wapello Co,, Iowa until 1903 when
he entered Iowa State College and remained for two
years. Accoef)anied hit father In 1905 to Big Horn,
now Park Co., Wyoming. Returned after his father’s
death and turned his attention to cement manufacture .
In 1909 he enlisted In the National Angy stationed
at Fort Leavenworth. Was honorably discharged Aug.
of 101?. Re-enllsted 2 Jan. 1011 in Co. I, 3d.
Battalion Engineers, and was granted a month’s
furlough li Oct. 1911, since when he has not been
heard from. He was a promising youth, a leader in
his classes In school and at the time of his disap¬
pearance was In line for Important advancement in
the Angy. There Is little doubt twt that he met
with foul plgy and that his assailant left no trace.

(11) Morris Glen Hook^, (He writes his name "Maurice" Glen

Hook, but the writing In the family Bible la Morris.)
b. 7 May 1889 in Wapello Co., Iowa; m. 1st., 30 May
1912, Elisabeth Clark of Toronto, Ont, who waa b. Lb
June 1888. She is a dau. of John Clark, b, 1856 In
the Province of Quebec, and Janet Knox, b, near Stone-
man, Quebec, 1856; d. 1892. The parents of John

Clark were James Clark and his wife Miriam Berry,

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Morris Glen Hook' married 2nd,, 7 July 19^5, Irma
Merz. Her son Glen, born 10 March 1935, graduated
B.S, in engineering in 19 56 from Michigan State
College. He presently is employed with a steel co,
in Detroit, He has adopted Glen Hook as his name,
Morris Glen Hook^ attended public schools in
Wapello Co., Iowa until 1905 when he went to Hum¬
boldt, Iowa to live with his sister Sarah, where he
graduated from high school in 1908, Attended Iowa
State College for two years. Employed by C, A, Dun¬
ham Company of Marshalltown, Iowa, 1910. Sent by
that company to its Canadian factory in Toronto, Ont.
same year where he remained until 1 Jan. 1912 when
he went to Winnipeg, Man. to become engineer to the
Provincial Architect, In 1915 he resigned his posi¬
tion in Winnipeg to re-enter college. Remained in
college but one semester when he accepted a position
with C. A. Dunham Co. as its Eastern Division Engi¬
neer with headquarters in New York City. On 1 July
1917, he was advanced to the position of Manager of
his company's New York office, which position he held
until 1930 when he resigned to enter business for
himself as Heating Engineer, In 193h he joined The
Geometric Tool Company as Divisional Manager in
Detroit, Mich., which position he resigned in 19^5*

He became a Heating Engineer of repute and published
a number of articles on heating of buildings in
engineering journals. He was for years a member of
the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engi¬
neers and served upon its nominating committee. His
work in Detroit shifted his interests to Tool Engi¬
neering and he joined the Am. Soc, of Tool Engineers.
He is a Mason and a member of the Kappa Sigma Fra¬
ternity, the Fraternity Club of N. Y. C, and the
Forest Lake Country Club of Detroit. He now lives
at Hubbard Lake, Michigan, retired.

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Children of Morris Glen Hook by first marriage:

(1) Marguerite Hook^, b.,22 April 1913, in Winnipeg,
Canada; m., h June 1935, Paul Zack Cummins, b.

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20 Oct. 1912 at Oolong, Illinois, both
graduated fron Syracuse University in 1935 with
B.S. degrees. Family presently lives in
Syracuse. N. Y. Children, (1) Paul Zack Cum¬
mins Jr. b., 1 May 1936, at Fitchburg, Mass*
He won appointment to the fJ* S* Naval Academy
at Amapolis, Md. where he presently is in hie
second year; (2) William Glen Cumins13, b. 22
Nov. 19li0; (3) Judy Ann Cumins13, b, 19k3.

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JAMES WILLIAM HOOK

Son of James Hook^, Family VIII, p. 329.

FAMILY IX

JAMES WILLIAM HOOK^ was bom, 9 Jan. 1881*, on parent1 s
farm in Highland Twsp. of Wapello Co*, Iowa. He married,

17 Sept* 1907, in St* Mark’s Episcopal Church at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, Hattie Rosemond Bechtel, dau. of Carl Philip and Rose
Belle (Waldburger) Bechtel of Fort Dodge, Iowa. She was
bora at Fort Dodge, Iowa, 16 Dec. 188 5» Her father was a
son of William Bechtel and his wife Marie Laufer of Hanau,
Germary who migrated to Iowa in 1852 and were married in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 3 Dec* 18 53* William Bechtel was
a son of Superior Court Justice Karl Bechtel and his second
wife Marie Friederike Ernestine Osterheld of Hanau and
Rohrbach, Germany. Rose Belle Waldburger was a daughter of
Franz Xavier and Theresa Josepha (Kampe) Waldburger who were
married, 15 June 181*7, in Hirschberg, Bohemia and emigrated
to the state of Iowa in the autumn of 1857 settling first at
Davenport, Iowa and in 1871, on a farm west of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, (See the book " Judge Karl Bechtel of Hanau, Germary n
by James W. Hook, 1936.)

James William Hook graduated, 1905, from Iowa State
College with the degree of Bachellor of Mechanical Engineer¬
ing, In 1912 he was awarded a Master’s Degree in Mechanical
Engineering by Iowa State College and was admitted to member¬
ship in the honorary engineering fraternity of Tau Beta Pi
when it was established in the college. While in college
he was a member of the Bachellor Debating Society, Editor
of the college paper and member of the Athletic Council. He
went to Cody, Wyoming in early Sept. 1905 where, with his
brother-in-law as a partner, purchased the Cody Enterprise
and became its editor. Returned to Iowa, because of ill
health, the following May and soon thereafter sold the news¬
paper. Accepted employment with the Des Moines Edison Light
Company, Sept. 1906, and the following December became sales
engineer for the Globe Machinery and Supply Company of
Des Moines, Iowa, Removed to Marshalltown, Iowa in Oct.

1909 where for seven years was, successively, sales manager
and general manager of the C*A. Dunham Company, Was ejected
president of the Alumni Association of Iowa State College in

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1915 and served one year. Was rice president, later presi¬
dent, of the Allied Machinery Co, of America, a foreign
trading concern in Mew York City, 1916-1923, during which
tin he resided in Tarrytown, N, Y, Was prominently identi¬
fied with the large war actirlties of the American Inter¬
national Corporation of N. Y., 1017-1919 and a director and
officer of several of its subsidiary corporations. In 1922-
23 was a merber of the Board of Education of Tarrytown
schools. He obtained an option to purchase the majority
Interest in the Geometric Tool Co, of Mew Haven, Conn, and
in Sept, of 1923 roved to Mew Haven, Upon death of incum¬
bent president of the company in Oct, 1923, he was elected
president and treasurer. On 1 Dec. 19?ii hs exercised his
option end became owner of the majority interest in the
comparer which he retained until 30 Mov, when he sold

the cospeny to the Greenfield Tep and !>le Corporation of
Greenfield, Mass,

During his residence in Mew Haven he has devoted much
time to public affairs. Mayor's Advisory Air Board, 1^25-
1929 j Vice Pres. Conn, Civil Service Association; director
Mew England Council and in 1936-3* its president. Chairman
of the Conn, Unemployment Commission, 19 3 0-3? l member of
President Hoover's National Comm, for Unempl<^ment, 1931-
1932; member Conn, Municipal Finance and Relief Coar-.lsalon,
1932-1935; Industrial Advisor to Mat'l, Recovery Adm. , 1933-
1935 end member of its Industrial Advisory Board, also Vice
Chairman of its fXirable Goods Comlttee; member of the Busi¬
ness Advisory Council of the U, S, Dept, of Commerce, I9jj0
to present; member Board of Tiustees University of Conn.,
1935-1953 and Chairman after 19ia9; declined opportunity to
become candidate for Governor of Conn, in 1936 and U. S,
Senate in 19140; member of Rational Republican Platform Comm.,
1938-^0; elected president of The United Illuminating Co,,
electrical utility in Mew Haven and vicinity in 1939 when
that comparer f ouni itself in management difficulties.
Established a new management personnel and since 19ti2 has
served as Chairman of the Board, A Trustee of the Mew Haven
Y.M.C.A. since 1938, director of Acme Wire Co. since 19?8
and a former director of ether Mew Haven corporations which
he resigned because of pressure of other duties. Member of
Society of Colonial Wars in Conn, (Gov. 19Jj6-19{j6), 3?nd

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degree Mason; member Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma honorary
fraternities and Kappa Sigma Social fraternity* Received
Marston Medal for achievement in Eng. from Iowa State
College in 19b0 and the Alumni Merit Award in 1939# Author
’’Industry's Obligation to the Unemployed," 1931> published
in 1938, and co author "The New Outlook- on Business," Harper
Bros., 19b0. He also, as a hobby, has written several books
of genealogy of which this book is one. He is a member of
the New Haven Citizens Action Commission, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Y.M.C.A. of New Haven and member
and deacon of the First Church of Christ of New Haven,
Congregationalist. (See "Who's Who in America," Vol. 29.)
Resides at £6 Mulberry Hill St., Hamden 17, Conn.

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Children of James William Hook and his wife Hattie R*
Bechtel;

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(1) James Philip Hook , b. at Marshalltown, Iowa 22 Jan.

1911; d. IS Mar* 19 11.

(2) James William Hook^, Jr., b. at Marshalltown, Iowa,

30 May 1912; m. 20 June 19b2, Dorothy White Hawley,
b. at New Haven, Conn. 2 Sept. 191b. She is a dau.
of George Shepard Hawley and Jessamine (White)

Hawley of New Haven. She attended Mrs. Day's School
in New Haven and Kendall Hall at Prides Crossing,
Mass. James William Hook Jr* graduated from Taft
School at Watertown, Conn, in 1930 and from Yale
University B.A. in 193b. Took special work at
Colorado School of Mines, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Columbia University after finishing
at Yale. Employed by J. Walter Thompson Co*, 1935?-
19b0, and by the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture (A. A. A.)
at Bozeman, Montana and Denver, Colorado, 19bO-19b2.
Employed by Geomatric Tool Co. in New Haven until
early in 19b3 when he joined the U. S. Marine Corps
at Paris Island training base. Later in the year
he was commissioned a 2nd. Lieutenant and transferred
to Camp Wright and later to Quant ico, Va. where he
was assigned to instructional duties. Was honorably-
discharged early in 19b£. Removed to Albuquerque,

New Mexico in May of 19b8 for health reasons where,

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since that tine, ha has bean employed by the Western
Electric Co* at the Atomic Energy Project at Sandia
Base where he and his family live.

Dorothy White Hawley is descended from Joseph
Hawley, from England in 1630, who settled first in
R ox bury, Massachusetts and permanently at Stratford,
Conn* in 1650 and, on her mother's side, from Elder
John White fro* England in 1632 to Cambridge, thence
to Hartford In 1639, to Hadley, Mass, in 1659 and
back to Hartford again in 1670* She Is also a direct
descendant of Oor. John Webster of Conn, and of the
Mayflower pilgrims John and Prlcllla Alden and is a
■ember of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in
Connecticut* State Ho. 1305* General No. 18652.

Their children are:

(1) Jums Hawley Hook10, b. ?1 Feb.

(2) Sally Bechtel Hook*^, b. 2 Jan. 19li7 •

(3) Thomas White Hook^, b* L March 19ii8.

(3) Roee Virginia Hook9, b* at Marshalltown, Iowa, 23 M.ay
1911ft s graduated from Mrs. Day's School, Hew Haven,
Conn., 1932 and from Vassar College, A.B., 1936. Mar¬
ried, 22 May 1937, William Haunt on Smith, b. 10 Nov.
1900 In So* Hadley Falls, Mass. He gradated from
Dartmouth College, 1931, and from Harvard Business
College, 1933* He Joined the Springfield Institution
for Savings at Springfield, Mass, in 1939, thereafter
advancing to the position of Treasurer which position
he held until Sept. 1953 when he became President of
the Holyoke Savings Bank at Holyoke, Mass, which posi¬
tion he presently holds. Family lives in Longmeadow,
Mass, where she is a member of the Junior League and
Vassar Committee and where both are members of the
First Church of Longmeadow, congregational.

William Haunt on Smith is descended from Lt. Samuel
Smith of Wethersfield, Conn, and Hadley, Mass, who
sailed to America from Ipswich, England, 30 Apr. 163b.
His line runs from this Samuel to Chlleab, to Chlleab
Jr. to Phlneas, a Captain In fov. War, to Levi, also
a Rev. War soldier, to Levi Jr. who married Fanny

Hayes, aunt of President Hayes, to William, to
William Hayes Smith, b. 7 July 1859; d. XU March
19 US who married 30 Oct. 1907 Gertrude Frances
Haunton, b. in Thetford, England, 2 Dec. 1871, the
daughter of Thomas Thu r low Haunton III of Ixworth,
Suffolk, England and his wife Fanny, dau. of William
Gill of Thetford, Norfolk, England. He is also a
descendant of Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Mass.,
Thomas Trowbridge of New Haven, Richard Treat of
Wethersfield, Conn., Gov. John Webster of Conn.,

Capt. David Barton of Granby, Mass, and Elder John
White of Hadley, Mass, and Hartford, Conn* For more
information see the book ’’Lieut* Samuel Smith His
Children and One Line of Descendants” by James W*
Hook, 1953.

Their children are:

(1) Gertrude Hook Smith^, called Trudi, b* 21 Aug.

i9ia.

(2) Rose Virginia Barton Smith^, called Vicki, b.

1 Oct. 19U3*

(3) Cynthia Haunton Smith^, called Cindi, b. 21 Feb.

19U7.

the vunorr fakiut

ms Mc>n. run j

YtlJna Wtn Uhl CoualUl *®rth C«rol!n«
vlUi »*o« lh» II Ur finllj IflifWMTjrl,

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THE VANNOY FAMILY

Intermarried with the Eller Family XIII, p. 188.

FAMILY I

JOHN VANNOY1. The genealogy "James Hook and Virginia Eller" published in
1925 contains about all that is yet known about the first generation of the Vannoy
family in the United States. That source, with words in parenthesis added, states
that, "The Vannoy family, according to family tradition, is of Huguenot extraction,
the early family (from whom the Varmoys in America descended) having fled
from France to Holland and (later going) from there to England during the
reign of Charles I. The name in France was probably spelled Vannoise or
Venois. The latter were names of distinguished families in France during
the 16th and 17th centuries. Tradition says that the father of the emigrant
to America fought under the banner of Oliver Cromwell and was related to him
by marriage.

"The emigrant to America (named John 7annoy) settled on Staten Island, New
York where he died in 1699 leaving a wife Rachel and sons and daughters, (as
shown below), John Vannoy wrote his will May 13, 1699. (Liber 7, p. U87,
Surrogate's office, New York City, N. Y.) It was proved, approved and allow¬
ed April 10, 1708, (the Probate Judge writing the name John Vannoyt). He
died, however, before March 17, 1700 as evidenced by a land grant made on
that date to Rachel Vannoy, widow of John Vannoy, The substance of John
Vannoy 1 s will reads as follows:

'In the name of 3od Amen this 13 day of May 1699 I John Vannoy being very
sick and weak. I make my wife Rachel sole executor and give her all my
estate for life then to all my children. When ny oldest son John is of
age he shall have one half so much of the estate as any other child shall
have and then to have an equal share with the rest.

Witnesses Teunis Egbertse Signed John X Vannoy 1

_ „ mark

Thomas Carne

"There seems to be no record of the inventory of the estate, but when
Rachel Vannoy was appointed administrator, the court referred to his estate
as comprising 'goods, chattels and credits in divers places within this
province'. Several wills and deeds of Richmond (Staten Island) after 1700
mention land formerly owned by John Vannoy which leads one to suspect that
the latter was well supplied with property etc,

"The land records of Richmond County, New York show a land survey to
'Rachel Vannoy widow of John Vannoy’ dated March 17, 1700. The land was
located 'at the South Side of the fish kill' and amounted in all to eight
acres. (Liber B, p. 3^6) Another grant in the same location on the same day
was made to the French Huguenot, John Journey, Near neighbors were others
with Huguenot names of John Bellville, John Oawetts and Francis Gannit."

John Vannoy 1 , the name being written Jan Van Oy, was collector of taxes in
Richmond in 1698. ("Hist, and 1m. Miscellany", by Dr. John E. Stilwell, 1903,

Vol. 1) This position most likely would reouire that he be able to write his own
name thus indicating that he was so very ill when his will was ready for signature
that he could not sign it. John Fannoy (sic) is mentioned in the settlement of
the estate of Thomas Adaro of Woodbridge, N. J., 1 April 1695. (N. J. Abstract of

Wills, Vol. 1, p. 5.)

The children of John and Rachel Vannoy are indicated in the Census of Staten
Island for the year 1706. (Ibid, p. 152 and 155.) They are not referred to as
children of John and Rachel Vannoy nor are their names spelled the same in all
cases but they could scarcely have been the children of ary other parents shown
to have been living on Staten Island at the time. They were as follows:

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(I) John 7anhoa?, *#ol ?0. H* mj Kara boor tha John Ton loteo (ole) of Flat-

buah, L. X. who, on ?9 Bov. 1717, purchaaad from jaorm *lllocka W acras
of Loir!, tha pom colnc part of • lurgor iroct of land 1 oca tad naar Hol¬
land's Brcxk In th* county of Huntsrdon, fow Jorooy.

(?) Francis Tanboa*, ifi<1 10. Soo Fanlly IX tolow.

(J) lb ran T«nhoy?. agwd not lUU d but callad *a boy*.

(4) Roe hoi Tanhoy*, ago not sliUl but callad *• girl*.

(5) CatharLra TtrJwy^ , *g* not • to tod but collod *• girl*.

(6) So rah Tonhoy^, ago not atatad out collod *o girl*.

Xt mould to • to tod hora that thara m a fomoy fanlly In Ulatsr Go., B*w
Tort froa tha alddla of tho 17th oantory mu daseondanta of whoa asttlsd m fort
Jorvla, law Tom and spollod tho rou Tar hy . A Uttar from four Franklin
Tan toy to this vrl tor da tod 4 January IT)? (lua an account of thla family which
obviously la not raUtod to tho T annoy fanlly of imUMoa C ., I. J. tail
aaally ho eonfuaod with it. An attract froa this lottor and a synopsis of Infor-
natloo oontolnod in It follow*.

•I will undortoka to (lu you too rocord of our family.

•In arlUrg th la X will ouoU from tha fosaarch Work of Bon. mn. R. four-
poaa, a foraar huilkt of t *» klnlalrk Talloy historical SocUty, who oom
plUd It fro tha aarly I lng*t«i »«' Nlnlslrb erareh rw*or*a.

'Tho awl grant anew • tor of tha Tan foya of tha Rlnlalnb rag Ion and at
tha fomoy famllloa of Ulster County, waa Gomalle Comal la aor. fomoy, who
with hla wl fa and ana you hr child, cum to this country f ram Bollani in
tha ship "Faith* wMch aallod January, 1664. Thay aaltlmd In UUtor Go.
at Kingston and U tar aocurad a tract of Lund m tha toum of hochaatar. In
tho iww e aunty , whora hla foully wua raurad.

'Tha chl Id run at Cornu 11a Caras 11 soon fomoy who tlad about 1777 and
Anut> Comalla, and data of baptisms warai folatje, Bur. 77, 1664, aar*

• d Ahruhon U Naira, of FUtouah, | . 166? | Carr*. rr. ), 1667,

nurrlud Burch 6, 1669, Gould, aon of Uu La fobola and Cutrjru a 1 ana hunt
tliaubaUk, nurrlad Burch 6, 1669, Jacob Shkolai turU>, uurrlad July 19,
1406, lodewyrt , oom of uurnuur Baorrkera and luu da Bo-ogee | jrlat >, uur¬
rlad Jacob, bom of T>rcfc Cluaaaau :• witt and tartan Andrlaaaant Ira rt ray
uurrlad Fla tar Uraw, Jan. 11, 1709| Comalla, J an. 4, 1679, uarrlad bov.

??, 170?, Surah, da ugh tar at Baaaal Tar. braaeb and Burl a Ton Rycbi Johanna a
April 74, 1661, uurrlad B»v. 76. 1774, Jaraabam Lowwi Jacob. . 10, 1664,
uurrlal (bunno April 7#, 1776) a bar a Mwinwltri Kucha 1, aantlmad in har
fathar'a will, which waa probatad In 17?7.'

Tha lot tar, which lu «lu long, c centra* a by gaotlng trm » raw urlting* of
R. J. Cowl tar of NLddlotom, fow Tort that wara pmbllahad in tha *0urtuga fo cords r*
at Suawa, 1. J. purportedly to show that Comal lua Cornaltaran fomoy* m tha
(randfathar of ana hrajanln Beetbroab Ternooy' of *lnialrh Ta'.lay, bra Tart, • mm
daaoondunta of m<a aattlad at fort Jamie. 9. 7. ha r' and n tfaettmab fo marry ’ , u*r-
rlod, 0 J ram ary 1749, :> » -witfael, (Ninlelf* C ranch foe onto, p. 767*. hod

flu* children.

(1) fotar fomoop**, b. , 74 Fab. 174)| ■., Hannah Conklin, dau. , probably, of
ttleholua and Klliaboth (Dltmura) Cork 1 In. Hla will wua writ tan In
Suaras Co., 1. J., ?4 July 1610 und probatad 16 7 7 wntlaatlng wl/a Hannah
and children, Kllua, fotar, Jooaph, Uiuid, Aaron, Surah, folly and
Hannah. Soma of thla family spallad tha naaa * Tan toy*.

(7) Jooaph Tanwkr, b. 7 Fab. Buy 10)), apt 76 fra,, ) maa. raid

11 day*, ((raraetona In Cbtch fof. Ch. Gea. , fort Jam la, R. T ., mm
a pa Had Tan ■<*.) bap. 19 Jana 17C7( u., 9 July 1704, Bury Coakllk,
daughtar, probably, of RUholaa und KllaabaUi (DllMra ) Cock 1 In. "hay

had children;

(1) Benjamin Vernooy'', b. 1785; d. 23 Nov. 181*8, age 63; m. Hannah, b.

1779/80; d., 18 March 181*7, aged 67. (Gravestone ibid. Name
spelled Van Noy. )

(2) Peter Vernooy'’, who married and had children, (1) Abraham Van Noy

(sic), b., 8 May 1821; d. , in Port Jervis, New York, 20 Jan.
1901, leaving two sons, namely, Peter Franklin Van Noy^, the
writer of the letter above mentioned, who married Eva Beulah

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Babcock and lived in Port Jervis, N. Y. and Thomas P. Van Noy ;
(2) Joseph Van Noy^; (3) Peter Van Noy^ who died young; (1*)
Several daughters. It will be noted that this family spelled
the name "Van Noy".

(3) John Vernooy'’.

(U) Nicholas Vernooy'’, b. 6 Sept. 1800; d. 8 June 1853, age 52 yrs.,

8 mo. and 22 days, (Gravestone, ibid. Name spelled Van Noy.)

(5) Rachel Vernooy^.

(6) Lena Vemoov^.

(3) Elizabeth Vernooy**.

(1*) Usselje Vernooy^.

(5) Sarah Vernooy^.

rUJCB 7A«POf2

Sot of John tartnoy*, Fanily I, p. 3L6.

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fahiu n

F*AMCI3 Tam WF, b., ea. 16^6| <J., ca. 1771, Ma will harli* beer. dated 15
Aug. 176F In tanterdon Co., M. J. and probated there ?1 hily 1771,. He it sal*4 to
haw narrlal, about 171 5, a daughter of Comallua Anteraor whoa* wife waa a daugtw
tar of Johann* a Op*yk* of tartar"4 an Co. The will of Comallua Anderson of Harter^
don Co. , M. J. waa dated >0 *arr 17?U. It aentloned hla wlf* Anrah and aon Ellalrlji
who war* daaijrrat*'4 •nrjion, but no othar ehll4reo. John AjvWraon and Francis
T annoy a'.jrr.ad aa fallow boiVawan with tha aminlatratora. (tanterdon Co. , V. J.
Will*, 7o 1 . 1, p. 13.) Th* will of Johamoo Opdlke da tad l? Fob. 1720/F9 waa
wltntaaod by hla aon Lawrence and grandsons Ellakl* and Comallua. tha firat two
balnr designated executors. John Andtraon an 1 Franc la Tamoy wltnaaaad tha will.
(Ibid. Vol. 1, t. Kt7.) Tha will of Franrla Tanrwgr2. dotod 1 * Aug. 176F ahowo
that ha nanad two of hla children Comallua and Hamah, daattlaaa in honor of
tholr grandfathar and granduother Aadaroor.

Tha will of Franc la Tamoy* nartlonad an aatata both roal and paroonal and
ordarod that it ba acid and tha proceeds dial dad aiwalljr between hla chi 11 ran, all
nanel, ahara and sham allka. It alao |m frwedon to Ma n*gro nan •Jack* *ni
ordarad that hla aon Comallua pro* Ida for hl». ha gaw hla ^Eldest ec n John*
five pound a proc Lana t ion n nay o war and aboaa Ma • -»al ahara. He daaignatad hla
aon Andraw and hla ecn-« •>-. *w hi tar all Ison to ba hla executor* . Tha will waa
algntd In hla own hand. ( tan la man Co., *. J. Mills.'

Tha tanterdon Co., V. J. raearda ueo contain othar nafaren-et to Franc la
Tannery . Thay alao ahnw « Frederick and M*n4rlra 7 annoy aa ha*lng bo an In tha
county batwaan 1730*171.0. Mho tfw Latl*r two war* haa not boon prowad. Frederick
and handrlck nay haw baan aona of Franrla who p mdse* weed tha i r fathar or thay
■ay haw teen daacandanta of tha Tamooya (Vamany' faally of litar Co., ■. T.
aon* ambarc of wf leh raeowd to W. Jersey. A H*n4r1ck Temvgre waa a eo^ranu#
of ilOOO arraa of land on Falta "raa* In Ola tar Co., k March 1700. Tha haw Jarway
Aba tract of Mills, 1730 to 1T9), p. 10, a'-owa Franrla Y*nqya (ale) aa a wltnaaa of
tha will of Andraw Andsroor that w»a prowl In tanterdon Co., 1. J., 7 Fab. 17)7
whl la Fradarim Tarnoye (ale) la shown aa a eremite*, ilotg with Comallua Ander-
aon of tha •at.t* of Million Branrtford, 5 March 17U?A). A Handrlck Tannery waa
before tha Canon Flaaa Court of tantardon Co. , l£ Oct. 17?6 In an act lor with
DoiJaL iranlln. Tha Hlatory of Burlington and Mercer Count Vat, «. J, by Major
I. M. woodward and John 7. Hagenen, p. *7? a*ya that Francis Tanner waa a contri¬
butor to tha personage of tha Fraabytarlan (ale) church of Maldanhaad and Ho pa aa 11,
M. J. In 1731. Thaaa towna than wart In tanterdon County but ara now In Hirear Co.
Tha sane aourca aaya that Franc la fannoy waa taaad on 150 aerta of land In tapa-
wall TwrwMp In 1777. (tanlardon and Scnereol Countlaa, «. J. tjjr Snail, 1M1. )

Tha mcord that afcowa a gift to tha Fraabytarlan Church la lntaraatlng bacauao
faally tradition aqre that tha fanlly warn eptlata frm aarllaat lines. Appar-
antly both dononlnatlone had ehurehaa In Hopawall Towna Mp at t*» tlaa, tha Cohans^
Baptlat Church having baan foundad about 170*. hirtrar raw arch la naa dad to clear
up thla point. On 10 ~ee . 171,5 * patltlon for a *ralay of tha public road leading
frrm Trenton to Matheniel Mari' ■ nl 11 in Hopawall" waa filed. Aanng tha elgnara
war* Francla 7 annoy, Comallua 7anroy , Vllakle Anderson, Comallua Andaraon,
Comallua Andaraon Jr., A bra haa Andaraon and Comallua tahlhsnua.

Tha children of Francla Fannoy^ mi* hla wlfa _ Andaraon warai

(1) John 7 annoy \ celled *aLd*at aon” In hla father's will. Hla nane not found

In early H*w Joreey racorda. Ma la aald to haw rewowd to tha Carolines.

(For children aaa 7 annoy Fa-lly III, p. 3Q.)

(2) Hannah 7annoy\ a., prior to 15 Aug. 1760, taler Mlllaon. Mo further record.

(3) Comallua Vannay\ Firat found In the tanterdon Co. racorda, 19 Ikc. 17W5

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when with Francis Vannoy, his father doubtless, he signed the petition above
mentioned, for relaying a public road from Trenton to Nathaniel Ward's mill
in Hopewell. He is next found in the records on 27 Feb. 1766 when he wit¬
nessed the will of Garrett Johnson of Hopewell Twsp. of Hunterdon Co., N. J.
(N. J. Abstract of Wills) He, also, was a witness of the will of Hannah
Hart of Hopewell Twsp., Hunterdon Co., on 19 Aug. 177b. (N, J. Abstract of

Wills.) A Cornelius Vannoy of Maidenhead Twsp, of Hunterdon Co., N. J. was
chosen guardian, 8 May 1793 of Ward McMichael of same county. James Wilson
of sane place was a bondsman.

One child could have been: (He could as well have been a son of Andrew
Vannoy next below.)

(1) John Vannoy^1, d., 1825/26; m., 19 Feb. 1780, Abagail Smith. (N. J,

Marriages) She d. in 1817/18. He probably was the John Vannoy who
was a Rev. War soldier in 2nd. Co. of N. J. Militia, 1776. The will
of John Vannoy was proved 2h March 1826 mentioning children;

(1) Andrew Vannoy'', probably the same who married Polly Price, 12

Dec. 1807. (Hunterdon Co., N. J. Marriages.)

(2) Joseph Vannoy'’.

(3) Cornelius Vannoy", was one of the executors of his father's will.
(U) Jane Vannoy'’, m., U Nov. 1805, David Herrin. (Hunterdon Co.,

N. J. Marriages,)

(5) Mehitable Vannoy'’, m. _ Howell,

(6) Mary Vannoy^.

(7) Sarah Vannoy^.

(8) Elizaoeth Vannoy'’.

(li) Andrew Vannoy^. He is first found in the New Jersey records, 7 Feb. 1753
when he helped to make the inventory of the estate of Francis Drake of
Hopewell, Hunterdon Co., N. J. He was listed as a freeholder in Lawrence
Twsp. of Burlington County, N. J. in 1769. An Andrew Vannoy, probably the
same but not so proved, died intestate in Maidenhead Township of Hunterdon
Co., N. J. in 1789/90. His estate was administered by Cornelius Vannoy of
same place, with Jwnes Wilson serving as fellow bondsmen. The inventory
of his estate was taken 8 Feb. 17^0 by Stephen Titus and James Wilson. It
accounted to 380 pounds, 5 shillings and pence. No children were men¬
tioned. (N. J. Abstract of Wills, Vol. VI.)

Children of Andrew Vannoy^ could have been: (They could as well have been
children of Cornelius Vannoy^ above.)

(1) Andrew Vannoy Jr.^, d. 1799. He doubtless was the Andrew Vannoy Jr.

whose intestate estate was administered by "Zerish Diean, widow,
lately Zerlsh Vannoy, of New Orleans". She was made the adminis¬
tratrix on Nov. 26, 1799. Her bondsmen were Cornelius Vannoy of
Maidenhead Township of Hunterdon Co., N. J. and William Grant of
Trenton, N. J. The inventory of the estate was made 27 Nov. 1799#

(N. J. Abstract of Wills.)

(2) Cornelius Vannoy^1. See Deed Book 35, p. 356, Hunterdon Co., N, J.

wherein Cornelius Vannoy and his wife Ann sold land in Lawrence Twsp.
formerly owned by "Andrew Vannoy, the elder".

(3) Joseph Vannoy^.

(li) Francis Vannoy^, t*io m. , 12 Jan. 1781, Mary Anderson. (N. J. Mar¬
riages) He probably was the Francis Vannoy who was a Rev. Soldier
in tte 2nd. Co. of N. J. Militia in 1776.

(5) Peter Vannoy^1.

(6) Catharlna 7annoya, who m. , ?L Mo*. 1773, John rtoekarty. ( *. J. Har-

rlagaa) ,

(7) Habacea 7aoncgr , who n. , >0 March 1779, John Angara on. ( I. J. JUr-

rl ar*»)

Mat# - Than* mu a Mow Jaraay 7 an nay fanlly that hictnWI from arm John Tamoy,
(paranr.a not llantl/lad) born about 1000, who had a aon ruwl,

( 1) AMrww Uptllt* 7anr.<r', bom 10)2, Ao aarrlad Martha Hunt and hai chlllran,
(a) RilLwyter Hartwall T annoy | (b) laraal Hint 7 annoy j ( c ) John waalwy
T annoy | (d) Anlra* Maltar 7 annoy; (a) Ibaa Tlrflnia Varw.ayi (f) Mary C.

T annoy ; (g) Jullat La. la a 7 annoy ; (b) lit Anna Tarnoy who aarrtal Hobart
ftogara. 3hw •upplla'i tha \rt ora* Hon on thl» fanlly.

352

JOHN VANNOY

Son of Francis Vannoy^, Family II, p. 3li9.

FAMILY III

JOHN VANNOY , (Francis , John ) was bom, say about, 1716 and d. in Wilkes
Co., N. C., about 1778. He married, about 17U0, Susannah who, according to his
grandson, Andrew Vannoy, son of Nathaniel, was Susannah Anderson, bom in New
Jersey. Confirmation of the New Jersey origin of the Vannoys in North Carolina
is given in the Cleveland Genealogy, Vol. Ill, p. 2086. Some N. C. Vannoy fami¬
lies say, however, that John "annoy came, probably, from near Georgetown, S. C.

The South Carolina tradition is supported by seme documentory evidence. A
tract of land located in the Purrysburgh District of South Carolina, containing
50 acres was surveyed for one John Francis "anay (sic) 25 June 1737. Another
tract of the same acreage in the sane district was surveyed for Francis Vennay
(sic) 27 Sept. 1736 and on 2 Dec. 1737 a town lot, number 188, in the town of
Purrysburgh, South Carolina was surveyed for Francis Vernay (sic). (Historical
Commission of S. C., Columbia, S. C.) It appears quite certain that Francis
Vennay and Francis Vernay were one and the same, but Mrs. Susan S. Padgett of the
Historical Cormission of South Carolina believes that John Francis Vanay was an
entirely different person she saying that she does not consider it probable that
two tracts of 50 acres each would have been granted to one person in the Purrys-
burg district at so nearly the same time. (Her letter of 2 Dec. 1952)

The Rirrysburgh district of South Carolina was located in the extreme south¬
eastern part of South Carolina across the Savannah River from the state of Georgia
and quite some distance south of Georgetown, S. C. It was settled by a colony of
Swiss emigrants under the leadership of Jean Pierre Purry who described the settle¬
ment and gave the names of the settlers in a letter to the Board of Trade in 173lt.
John Francis Vanay' s name does not appear on the list, a fact which implies that

he came into the colony on his own and after the settlement had been made. (See

S. C. Hist, and Gen. Mag., Vol, X, Oct. 1909.)

This writer, while feeling strongly that the North Carolina Vanncys came
from New Jersey, thinks it not improbable that John Francis Vanay of South Caro¬
lina and John Vannoy (Vanoy)^ of Western N. C. were one and the same and that he
came into the colony of Purrysburgh from New Jersey, remained there for a time
and then moved on to the Jersey settlement at the mouth of Potts Creek on the
Yadkin River in Rowan Co., N. C. near the present town of Linwood, located now in
Davidson Co. where others from the state of New Jersey had settled. (See "The

Rowan Story" by James S. Brawley, 1953, for more about the "Jersey Settlement".)

That he came originally from New Jersey is claimed by descendants of his sons
Andrew, Francis and Nathaniel. Some descendants of Nathaniel, however, bring in
the South Carolina tradition. He could have been christened John Francis at
birth, names respectively, of his grandfather and father. He probably came south
with his bride and may have been enticed there by landlord claims or even by
Governor Oglethorpe who at the time was engaged in driving the Spaniards out of
coastal Georgia. No record has been found by this writer of the disposition of
the land that was granted to him in 1737.

The exact date of John Vannoy 's-' arrival in the Jersey settlement of Rowan
County, N. C. is not known, but it must have been during the 17li0's because his
son, Nathaniel, whose birth date was 16 Feb. 17l»9, is said to have been bom there.
The first record of his living there was found in the diary of Rev, Hugh McAden,
a pioneer Presbyterian Minister who recorded that he spent the night of 3 September
1755 at the home of John Vannoy. He next appears on a 1759 tax list of Rowan
County that was found in the walls of the old Rowan County Courthouse in 19UU
by William D. Kizziah, Register of Deeds. The list has been published as
Appendix in "The Rowan Story" by James S. Brawley, 1953. There are no

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doads on r*corl In Rowan County to a how whan John Yannoy ocoulrad or dlspcood of
his property tha — . Ha probably follow#* th# practiea of not —ear dine his loads
boesuss of ths cost, hl«h in the## days in Worth Carolina, this nacassitatinc ona
to saarch subsoooont daads to run today's litlas back to his.

John Yannojr is said to haw llwd in tha Jaraay Sottlsusnt of town, now
TVarltson Co., W. C. until about 177?. Ha synjatMs- . th tha "Ha fa la tors" in
thair opposition to tha unjust tax and sondeo fas policy of tha British jearo-
f»nt undar Oowrnor VI 111 an Try or. Aftar ts#lr raballion was cnishad at 41a-
nanca In May of 1771, oary of tha sattlar*s ho— s alone tha Ts-fcln Wnr wars
pi 11a fad and das troy ad and ths he— of John Yannoy Is said to haw baan ana of
than. Hr, tharsfora, dlsposad of *la far# and nowd ws*tward to a »a far placa
In tha uourtalna of WlLkss Co., >. C. 5oa Chaptar YI In *Tha Rowan Story* by
Janas 3. Brow lay, 19$) and tha book *Sona Hs* lac tad History of I. C. * by HlllUi
C. Fitch, for nora about tha ■hsfuLator* nowant which sana his tori ana say was
tha first battla of tha Ha volution.

John and Susannah Vmnoy war# au.neh Baptists In thair rail clous oallafs.
Thair Child ran ranainad t rua to this faith throuetmt thair liwa and sana of
thair crundchlldran bsca— all m wn In tha s; 1 1st Ministry. Iwacsr.tant* of
John and Susannah 7 annoy ara la f Lon in Worth Carolina anl found also in e^*t
nunbo — In tha Mississippi 7allay an* on tha vast coast.

Chi Id ran of Jo hr.' and Susannah (indaraon) Yannoy ws — i (Bib la —cards all

publlshad in Yol. CII, Jar.. 19$$# of tha W* Ireland Hist, and 3sn. — (lstsr.)

(1) Raehsl Yannoy^, b., 1? April 17L1| »., Hall Fstton. Ha la said to haw baan
tha ancaator of tha Patton fall/ In Vllkaa Co., I. C.

(?) Andraw 7annay^, b., 1? Aue. 1 7U? j d. , 9 Oct. 1609| lie# res lssus! In
Ullfess Co., *. C., IP Oct. 1779, 'isarnah harhaH *»‘o *. 1) March 1*16.

8hi ism • d«u. of John and Sarah Shspard. (tas hardly IT ba Low for eh1.
rar,o. )$6.l

()) Abrahar Yannoy1*, b., 1$ January 17V<,

(l») Francis Yannoy1*, b. , 13 Aue. 17U6| d. , naar harbour* ll la , tnos Co., tontucky,
?6 July IP??. Mia wlfs'a nw has not baan pro wd but a dsscondant of his
dauyhtar Mlllis, ■ us pacta that hsr raa* was Hands —on btruss of that rasw
appaardne as a |lwi nos In la tor flans rati ona of tha Fra nets hrvxf fanlly
Tha first —cord of Francis Yannoy was found in tha account of cUbu In
tha how an Co., H. C. airuto be* for U* yaar 176*1. Ms was a Juror In tha
rfllkas Co. oourt of 1779. Ha — cslwd grants to sawn parcels of land,
tha fl— t two on ?U apt. 1779 and tha aawrth on 7 Juna 1799, Thaao
paresis tot ala 1 710 acras all loeatod In tha haltlas bar district, north
of Vi Lfes sboro, in Vllkas County. Ho werrsd to tries County, Isr.tucky
batman 1P00 and 1P1?, Ha was fathar of sow— 1 chil *—o only ona of whau,
na—ly a dau. "lllia, has baan tsflnltsly pro wd by this wrltor.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(Is)

Mlllis (Anllla) Yarwwy*’, b., ca. 177J,j d.. May lB^Pj llconco
lssuad in Ml lit* s Co., 8 July IRQ?, Edward Coney, b. ca. 17W| d.,
ca. 1*^6. Ha was a son of Johr arr* Ann (Mortar) ancy. Tha— wa —
child— n but thair naass s aura not laarnad.

Hsbacca Tanrxy , probably a d—ehtor althoueh aha could as wall —so
loan a dau. of An* —a 7«nnoy, broths r of Francis. Sha uarrlad,

11 cane a lssuad in tall—* Co., IF *hc. 180), John Ha star. Award
’fcney was bondssian and Francis Yamoy wltnaas on tha aarriaeu liosnco
Hoah Yannoy^, probably a aon. Ha narrl* . «rca is* • - 1 Lfcaa

Co., 23 Fab. 1M1, Charity Church. Francis Tamoy alenad tha lioOMO
aa ban* soar arr* John HeCord sir— 4 tha so— aa wi truss .

Abnar Vurmcy C. Ha may haw boon a son.

(5) He doubtless had more children,

Nathaniel Vannoy^, b., 16 Feb, 171*9; d., 26 July 1835; m. , about 1773/7U, in
Wilkes Co., N. C., Elizabeth Ray of Ashe Co., N. C. (See Family V for
children, p. 3*>8.)

Hannah Vannoy14, b., 26 March 1751. A sister of Nathaniel Vannqy married the
Rev. Andrew Baker, a pioneer Baptist Minister of western North Carolina,
She probably was Hannah Vannoy but could have been Susannah or Katherine
shown below.

Daniel Vannoy^, b. , 22 Feb. 1752; m. , licence issued in Wilkes Co., 2 Oct,
1779, Sarah Hickerson. He was granted 100 acres of land on South Beaver
Creek in Wilkes Co., 23 Oct. 1782. No record was found of his children
but one son probably was;

(1) Joel Vannoy , b. 1792; d. 1858, aged 66. (Gravestone, calling him
Colonel Joel Vannoy in the Presbyterian church yard, Wilkesboro,

N. C.) He married, 1st., licence issued in Wilkes Co., 18 March
1817, Elizabeth Saint Clear, b. 12 Sept. 1796; d. 10 Feb. 1831,
(gravestone ibid.). Litte Hickerson signed his marriage licence
as bondsman. He m., 2nd., Mira (probably Lenura Suddworth) who was
born 1809 and died in 1858, aged 1*9, (gravestone ibid.). His will
was dated 23 Feb. 1856, and in essentials reads as follows. "Wife
Lenura, formerly Lenura Suddworth" to whom he gave "600 acres of
land during her natural life to enable her to raise the children
that God has given us and at her death said land to be sold and the
proceeds divided equally between her children" all named as shown
below. The text of this will then continues, "I do also give to the
children of my former marriage to wit", all named as shown below.

To these he gave certain sums of money all stated and "as to my
Cherokee land it shall benefit all of ny children and heirs share
and share alike." Signed Joel Vannoy.

Children, according to his will, were:

By first wife, Elizabeth Saint Clear.

(1) Joel Vannoy^.

(2) Alfred Vannoy^.

(3) Caroline Vannoy^'. Called Caroline Miller in father's will.

(1*) John Hamilton Vannoy^.

(5) Rebecca Vannoy^. In father's will referred to as "Rebecca

formerly married to Walsh."

(6) Emily Amanda Vannoy^. Called "Emily Amanda Welch" in father's

wiil.

(7) Amelia Adeline Vannoy . Called "Amelia Adeline Parker" in

father's will.

(8) Ann Mariah Vannoy^. Called "Ann Mariah Swink" in father's win.

By second wife, Lenura Suddworth,

(9) Abram Vannoy^.

(10) Winiam Vannoy^. He may have been the "Major W. W. Vannoy^, b.

22 June 1831*; d. 9 Jan. 1905. (Gravestone in same plot with
Col. Joel Vannoy in Presbyterian church yard in Wilkesboro,

N. C.) He married, probably Susan, b, 7 Nov. 1837; d., 22 April
1903. (Gravestone ibid.)

(11) Sarah Vanncy^.

(12) Washington Vannoy^.

(13) Harvey Vannoy^.

Oil) Thwaa* 7 annoy .

(If) El yah Roa • Yanrw y* .

(16) Calharlm 7 irnoy^-.

(17) AnAaruan H. T*x*vojr* .

(8) Suaamah Vamoy^ , b, , 6 July 17Q*. 9m har alatar Hamah abova.

(9) Eatharlna Tannoy**, b.# ?6 'We. l?f<. r-#* har alatar Hamah abo«» .

356

ANDREW VANNOY14

Son of John Vannoy^, Family III, p. 352.

FAMILY IV

ANDREW VANNDi , (John3, Francis2, John1), b. , 12 Aug. 17U2; d., 9 Oct. 1809.

He m., licence issued in Wilkes Co., N. C., 18 Oct. 1779, Susannah Shepherd who
died 13 March 1816. She was a dau. of John and Sarah Shepard, and mentioned as
daughter Susannah Vannoy in the will of John Shepard, probated in Wilkes Co.,

N. C., 31 July 1810. Two parcels of land, aggregating 650 acres, were granted to
Andrew Vannoy, the first for 50 acres on 18 May 1789 and the second for 6 00 acres
on 2h Nov. 1790. Both parcels were located on Mulberry Creek in Wilkes Co,, N. C.
Andrew Vannoy (VanNoy, Vanoise) was a captain of a compary in the 10 N. C. Regi¬
ment, Rev. War, under the command of Col. Abraham Shepard. (Roster of N. C.
Soldiers in the Am. Rev., published by the D.A.R., pp. 10li-15h.) He is recorded
as having retired from the service 1$ April 1777. (Ibid, p. Ii9) Family records
say that when Lord Cornwallis began his invasion of North Carolina, Capt. Andrew
Vannoy recruited a band of neighbors, some of whom had been in his earlier com¬
mand and Joined the forces of Col. Benjamin Cleveland which routed the invaders
at the famous battle of King's Mountain, 7 Oct. 1780. Andrew's brother Nathaniel
was one of the recruits and according to family record was a member of Col. Cleve¬
land's staff, serving him as sergeant major. These mountain patriots were not a
regularly organized band but rather an improvised force that was recruited sud¬
denly in any locality of threatened danger. Accustomed to Indian raids they were
always prepared to rush to the defense of their hones and neighbors when signal
fires were lighted on near by mountain tops. Regretfully, however, they left
only sparce records of their exploits farcing historians to depend much upon
fanily records and stories passed down for information of what happened and who
took part. That Andrew Vannoy received army pay after the battle of King's
Mountain took place is verified in the Book of Arny Accounts in the auditor's
office in Raleigh, N. C. The book entitled "Book of Settlement of Army Claims,

No. 19, Halifax" shows a payment to "Andrew Vanoy, Capt. pd. 1 Jan. 82, 1079
pounds and 2^ shillings." Another book entitled, "Book of Settlement of Army
Accounts (printed)" show "No. 33 Andrew Vanoy, Captain pd. 1*31 pounds, 19 shillings
and li pence at Warrington, N. C., about 1782. Received by Thomas Donoho."

Mr. John B. Foster, bom in 1852, a great grandson of Nathaniel Vannoy,
.Andrew's brother, stated in his application for membership in the Sons of the
American Revolution that his father and uncle often told him stories of the
Revolutionary War experiences of Andrew and Nathaniel Vannoy in the King's Main¬
tain Campaign. The V annoys and Clevelands were near neighbors in Wilkes County.
Jeremiah Cleveland, a nephew of Col. Benjamin Cleveland married a daughter (Sarah)
of Nathaniel Vannoy,

Andrew Vannoy was granted bounty land for his war service. It was located
near Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee.

The children of Andrew^ and Susannah (Shepherd) Vainoy, family records, were;

(1) Rebecca Vannoy^, b. 7 Aug. 1780. She may have been the Rebecca Vannoy who

m., 18 Dec. 1803, John Hester. This Rebecca, however, could as well have
been a dau. of Francis Vannoy^4, Andrew's brother and the fact that Francis
Vannoy witnessed the marriage licence, suggests this.

(2) Abraham Vannoy"*, b. 27 Dec. 1782. He may have been the same as Abner Vannoy

shown in the 1850 census of Wilkes Co., aged 67, living with Mary Vannoy,
aged 27 (his daughter probably) and Franklin Vannoy, aged 3,

(3) Andrew Vannoy"*, b. 17 June 17©l» • He probably was the Andrew Vannoy who

obtained a licence 12 April 1815 (Wilkes Co., N. C.) to m. Nancy Pcwell,

357

and tha Arvti aw 7 annoy shown In tha UWO Pal. Conaua of allksa Co., agvd Tli ,
1 Ivina with Mabaeca T annoy, ago! bO, John fc. T annoy, agad )6, hanry F annoy,
•*•1 36, bom In 7a., loraar. H. Tanner, a|t1 lii , Elliabath Tannoy, agod 12
and Fhaba Tannoy, agod 9.

(li) Sarah Tannoy'’, b. 7 March 1700. Mo furthar racord found.

(5) Enoch Tannoy ', b. TO Mov. 1790. Ha my ham boon l ha Enoch ' imjy who vaa

laajad a llconco, 10 Dbc. 1013, tn tflUtaa Co. to Barry lata a (Igrdla)

He Irady and shown In tha 1670 oanawa of Ml Lkwa County, i|rl §0, living
with Lid 41 a 7 annoy , agol 69, Mary 7 army agod 79, Martha tannoy ago 1 71

and Cama 7 annoy , a fanala, agod 5*

(6) Jama Varney' , b. 77 Jana 1TW| 4. 19 Fab. 1057| a., 10 &M. 1013, Sarah

(Sallla) Shoph arJ, b. 71 lot, 1795. 5ha was a 'aaghtar of John an* Mato

Shapha rd. Ha waa a baptist winlator. oo fanlly 71, p. y 1 far ehlldron.

(7) hthnUl Tannoy ’, b. 6 Fab. 17M.| d. 75 tag. 1057. Ha nay ham boan tha

■athanlsl Tannoy who a., llconco la mad la tfilaaa Co., C. 7 Jan. 1PU*,

Tarry Owana.

(0) Mary Tannoy , b. 7 April 1796. *ho ag ham boan tha Mary Tanroy’* aho a.,

Ueanca la mad In tfilbaa Co., 7 «ov. 1?1<, John -town.

*9) 9a § amah Tannoy"', b. 76 hpl, 1799, 'ha , doabtl as a, waa tha Susamafc ( Xia«n i)
Tanney Who a., llrar;# Irrwl In Vllbos Co. 71 Mov. 1077, Saorga Mental ,
(Ja aai‘, Mav. Oaorga ( Vaa Janas *c«l#l fanlly, p. IQL haroln.)

(10) II it aba th Tannoy*, b. U April 17%. ha agr ham boon tha A 1 Isobath

Tannoy who a., 1 loonea da tod In Vllfcas 17 Fat. , hr- ly brown.

358

NATHANIEL VANNOY^

Son of John Vannoy3, Fandly III, p. 352.

FAMILY V

NATHANIEL VANNOY^, (John3, Francis2, John1), b. 16 Feb. 17U9 in Rowan Co.,

N. C.; d. 26 July 1835 at the home of his daughter Sarah (Vannoy) Cleveland in
Greenville, S. C. where he lies buried. He married, about 1773/7U, in Wilkes Co.,
Elizabeth Ray whose parents are said to have been of English ancestry and of that
part of Wilkes Co. that in 1799 became Ashe County, Family records state that he
was a soldier of the Revolution, that he was at the battle of King’s Maintain with
his eldest brother, Captain Andrew Vannoy and that he bore the rank of sergeant
major on the staff of Col, Benjamin Cleveland. More about this family record is
given under the family of Andrew Vannoy^, supra, Family IV herein, page 356.

Nathaniel Vannoy^ was granted 200 acres of land in Wilkes County 23 Oct.

1782. This land was surveyed for him 27 Dec. 1779 and was located on the south
side of Beaver Creek, a branch of the South fork of New River. (Book U9, p. Iii8,
File U20, Secy, of State’s Office, Raleigh, N. C.) He was granted an additional
100 acres further north of his earlier grant on 10 July 1788. (Book 66, p. 396,
File 853, Ibid.) These two tracts were in what is now Ashe County, Ten years
later, on 5 Dec. 1798, he was granted 100 acres of land on a branch of Lewis Fork
Creek in Wilkes Co. (Book 100, p. 50, File 11*9$ ibid.) and on 10 Dec. 1802 and
28 November 1812 two additional tracts containing 20 acres and 50 acres respec¬
tively both on the waters of Lewis Fork Creek were granted to him, (Book 116,
p. 235, File 2060 and Book 127, p. 131» File 2187 respectively.) Lewis Fork
Creek is located in Wilkes Co. ten miles or so north west of Wilkesboro.

The Lewis Fork Creek farms of Nathaniel Vannoy^ adjoined thee e of Robert
Cleveland, brother of Col. Benjamin Cleveland of King's Mountain fame. Jeremiah
Cleveland, son of Robert, married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Vannoy^. Tradition
with no proof sgys that a sister of Nathaniel Vannoy married a Cleveland.

Maiy tales have been handed down about the exploits of the mountaineers dur¬
ing and after the Revolutionary War. One bearing on the Vannoys and Clevelands
is that Nathaniel Vannoy^ being sheriff or deputy sheriff of Wilkes County was in
the company of Capt. Andrew Vainoy, his brother, at the time of the King’s Moun¬
tain Campaign, when it captured and hung seven (some stories say three) Tories
who had been robbing and killing patriots in the vicinity of Wilkesboro. The tree
to which they were said to have been hung still stands at the rear of the court¬
house in Wilkesboro. This story is told by different branches of the Vannoy
family and probably is substantially true. (See Application for membership in the
Sons of the American Revolution fay John Byram Foster of Missouri, National No.
20723, State No. 298, dated Feb. 1912.)

Nathaniel 7annoy^ and his wife were founder members of the New Hope Baptist
Church located about 6 miles north west of North Wilkesboro. This church was
constituted 26 June 1830 to serve the people of the valley of Lewis Fork Creek.

His nephew, Rev, J*>es Vannoy, son of Andrew, of the Reddies River Church was a
visiting pastor at the founding. In 1812 this nephew was chosen pastor.

Nathaniel 7annoy spent the last years of his life with his daughter Sarah
Cleveland. His wife died at the family farm on Lewis Fork Creek prior to 1830 anc
was buried in an old cemetery located on the spine of a hill on the west side of
land owned by John Morgan Yates and is one of many unmarked graves there.

The following extracts were taken from the Bible of Mary Caroline (Vannoy)
Eller, daughter of Jesse Vannoy'’, (Nathaniel^, John^, Francis2, John1). "He

(Nathaniel Vannoy) was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and served with
Col. Benjamin Cleveland, a kinsman, in the Battle of King's Mountain. He
performed other services to his country and was a citizen of merit. His
first hone was with his father at the old Vannoy Fish Dam near the mouth of
Lick Creek on the Yadkin River in Davidson County, N. C, Here the family

)9F

»u rlilU'l by such plemarw at tha ha». Hu *7. Vi-Wr who apmt U4 nl.-ht of
S«pt. )# 17$? with hi* fathar . . . Mathanlal Ta may was a taseandant of
Oliva Crosasall, probably on Mi aothar’s aids. Also ha was blood kin to
Kln< joorr* HI of £ nr land with what ha was corvwrrorarjr and tha rtill of
tha nob la woman Caro lira Prankay M»ti.l*a to 1. C. In 1772 waa parpat.atal
In Tastily nuwi, Hatha rial Tannoy racalvsd a panalon as a r ol“ iQllltr at
tha Usa of Ms daath. Ha waa a nlnlstar of lha (otpal and a pastor of
Baptist churchaa and an avanfallot, Ha was a plonsar saltlsr an s»awr
Crsak In Asfw County and, about 1*1*, aattlad an >«la Fork In rfllkas Co.,
I. C.-

This wrltar haa not taan at is to eanflm that htthanlsl Tannoy waa racslrli^
a panalon for Haaolutlonajry a»r aarvloa at tha lisa of hla bath, Thara la no
racoH of such a panalon In wasM^ton, 0, C,

Tha chlldrsn of Hathanlal Tannoy" and hla wlfa Klliabath Hoy w»ra i
(1) John Tannoy *, b. 77 V jr 1 7T<, d., ca. 170b, probably in Monltaaa Co. , Ho*

Ha n. 1st., KUtabath Mlty, dau. of Sllllaa lilty of allkas Co., V. C.j
«. Tnd. , nasaa not found. Saa Tanner Tartly TTI balow for ohlldrsn, p. V7.

(?) Jos 1 Tannoy, b. 77 Fab. 1777. Ha rassowad to fUs Co., Mlaa
a Urya Tastily, Daaeandants of his f orsta d tha wall known
rtata Co. wMrh was an astanalva railway rsstaurant sarrt-
In tha first <*iartar of this eartury.

ourl and ralaa*
Tankoy Intar-
a institution

()) Sarah Tannoy , b.. 16 Jar. lTTtj ?\ Jkl y lf<*t 1 ;•

Jarsulah Claws: t>., 7 !*e. 1775., la ImUIi, .. «k .

1*45, *r* ' 71. Ha was a son of Hobart CU*s Ian*" an* hi# first wlfa a lay
Matthias. ; obart Clawa laraf4 was a brothar of Col. har.Jastlr 7 lava lard of
Klnv'a M^ntalr. fans and a son of John Clasala sad*. (Alasandar Jr.**,

AlaaandarM. Tha eWldvan of arah
Clara land* w*rs| fClaaalan4 wnsaloyy'

Jaranlah

(1) Hobart Matthias ClswaUn) , t., ) March 163).

(?) Jasaa Franklin Clawaland'1, b., ?< Or t. 17%,

()) Janaulah Cl raw land Jr.6, b. , l Fab. 1*00,

(It) bamatt Clawaland6, b., 76 April lfOd,

(5) Carollrw Claaalsnd6, b., 7 Fab. 1*11.

(6) Harrlati Clswland6, b, 7 Fab. 1011. Tkl- with Carolina.

(7) Illta Claw* lsnd6, b. , 6 Okt. Ms

(0) Janas Marway Clantland6, b. 1 Dae. IP1*.

(k) Jasaa Tannoy , b. 7 Jkly 17M| d., 76 How, 1*75 at hla h^sa on Lawl a Fork

Crsok, Wilks a Co., *. C. Ha 17 Jan. 1*1., Mra. Mary harvard, wl tow

of John Sharhard whoa aha had aarrtad 1) Oct. 1*37 and by w*.« • *■ probably

had no child ran. *ha was bom IT 'apt. 1?*5| 4. Ik Fab. 1*61 and was a

dajfhtar of Wllllan and Mary Til of Wl Iks • Co. 'aa Tannoy Farlly Till
balow for ehlldran, p. )7D.

(5) An* raw anrey , 6., L How. 17f)| d., ?5 Jan. IV* In Shalbywllla, ndford
Co., Tvnataaaf a., 1st,, )0 How. lP>b, In allkaa Co., C, llltatath
Ibcan, b. ca. 17*7 1 d., )1 i.j. l*lbj a. 7nd.f 7 Jan. 1071, Ja*» MoRlrhaal,
probably of halbywllla, Tann. 3 ha dl»d It Fab. 1*77. An*iuw Tannry *a«

• davwit nsadar of tha baptist Church, a (Lf tad school tsar ha r and dark
of tha had ford Co., Tamaaaaa Court for nary ywars .

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Children by first wife, Elizabeth Dog an :

(1) Joseph Vannoy^, b., ca. 1810.

(2) Henry Vannoy^, b., ca. 1812.

(3) Andrew Vannoy Jr. 6, b., ca. I8llt, probably d. young.
(It) Nathaniel Vannoy^, b., ca. 1816.

(5) Sarah Vannoy^, b., ca. 1818.

Children by secortl wife, Jane McMichael:

(6) Elizabeth Vannoy^, b. , ca. 1822.

(7) Martha Vanncy^, b., ca. 182U.

(8) Jesse Vannoy^, b., ca. 1826.

(9) John Vannoy^, b., ca. 1828.

(10) Mary Ann Vannoy^, b., ca. 1830.

(11) Andrew Vannoy Jr.^, again, b., ca. 1832.

(12) Margaret Vannoy^, b., ca. 183U.

(6) Elizabeth Vannoy^, b., it March 1736. She probably m., licence issued in

Wilkes Co., 26 April 1806, Neil Peyton (Patton). One dau. was Caroline
Peyton who Harried Jesse Tates. She was b. lit June 1831; d. 27 May 1919.

(7) Jane Vannoy^, b. , 20 Aug. 1788. It is said that she narried a Mr. Thurston,

removed to Arkansas and had no children. A "Jinr^ Vannoy" on 3 June 1811
was licenced in Wilkes Co., N. C. to m. David Laws.

(8) Ann Vannoy^, b., It Nov. 1790; death date not found. She m., John Foster, b.,

1782; d., 1897. The family lived in Ashe Co., N. C. A descendant of this
family was John 9yran Foster of Marshfield, Webster Co., Missouri who at
age 60 applied for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution on 7
March 1912 and was accepted. National No. 20723, Mo. State No. 298.

(9) Susannah Vannoy^, b. , It Nov. 1790, twin with Ann, next above. She is said

to have married a Mr. Parks.

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jams u«sorc

Son of kndrmt fwno y^, Fonlly IT, p. )^6.

JAMS TiintJ! , (Aadrew\ John', frw*U?, John1), b., 77 tens 170?, d., IT
Fob. 1097. No « u christened Oet, 1017 st th* W»*r baptist Clnreh in

Wilkes Co., V. C. % n. , 10 Don. 1013, Snmh (SolUs) Shop horn, b., 71 Moo. !99f|
Tooth To to not f oond. Sh* woo o Tat. of Johr on-* FOnb* Shepherd. .'omi Terncy
•u • Sort lot Rlnistor boloood of oil know hi*, it hlo Tooth ho »u roforrol
to In • church rooo lotion u *o food non, o kin* hubool, on effect l one to father,
o huntlo follower, on oblo alrlsier of Christ and on* of U* wit plow* * ini store
of ted in tho baptist Tenant notion.*

Chi 1 Iron, oil bom in Wilkes Cowtj, North Cnneliaoi
(1) John M. ▼oiNny^, b.. It 'opt. Hlfc| *. eo. 1*<*. No n., llconos To tod 70

North 10)9, Cethortrn ioK 11.

Their children »ere, ( IF 9), 1060, 1070 conrue ) i

(1) henry T c^’, b. CO. 10)6.

(7) Wlllisn Tormy?, b. 00. 10)0.

()) Soroh lom^*, b. co. 10*3.

(4) Janes Vennflj b. co. 1047.

(9) CsUsOu Ter.?Jy7, b. co. UU.

(6) hour Tomxjy ?. b. co. 1046.

(7) J© sop* TMtuy , b. co. 104*.

(0) Rury Tsnrwsy . b. co. 109).

(7) Fhob* tennoy' , b. , 77 July 1016, 4., 30 10t7| n. , 7 *rr. 10)1, ooT*

Colon rd, b., 9 July 1005, in Wilkes Co., I. C.| d., 19 July 1000. A* as

o son of dll lion Colrord o*4 Us olf* hoc ho 1 Tarry.

Children, oil bora lo Wilkes Co., l. C.i

(1) tofts Winfield Colrord?, b., 0 4m. 1*)7| 4., 19 Jely 109 1 » o., 17 Fob.
1067, Nency tlrlfo ■’M ll 1 Alton, b«, 10 %>?, 104 )| T., U -opt. 1«)1.
the *es o 4ot, of ter. 4 linn WMttlnftoo end hi* olf* Nory (Folly'

II lor, loo, of 1 in* on lll*r*. (John?, totor?, te?rfo wirheelM.
htfo# winflold Colrord, ** If sToesteT, proparol hlnoolf for loot hi ns
in the schools of his ssnwdVy. % tel his oooon brothers enlisted
ondor Copt, CnMpler In C sop sip 4, First *•*. of ■. C. Cornlry, Oth
hsf. of lint* Troop, C. .4. end nn*d throes haul ihs »»r eo ec «t«T
cloiO »br ih* re < mental cssneeni of Col. W. N. R. Cowl—, iftor
l ho oer ho res.au* • his Usee Mas. In Fob. 1079 h* ves appointed o
neater of Ih* 04. of Co. r<n»i sslanoro of Wllhno Co. end In 1007 »o s
elected chairmen, e pool 11 on he hold until his Teeth.

Children i

(1) Nory Ue Coloerl , b., 16 Fob. 1060 1 d.,

1096, Thane* L CslnH. Nod % children.
(7) inns Up Colosrf“, b., 71 Roy 1071, d., 1«

76 **r

1H6i n., 4*4.
1H9| 7)

Fob. 10T0, Odell Foroono. M 9 do^shtoro.

()) Fits tofes Col rend* b., 6 Roy 107), d., 0 iuf. 1097.

(4) ten Jenin R. Colon rd\ b.. 10 Fob. 1076, d., 77 i*t. i«X>, *. .

lot., in 1T09, ilvordo Forrostor, n. , 7n4., 17 Jon* If 17, Oer*
Taylor. Rod throo children.

(9) hallloTtnrinio (Jennie) Csltir/, b., 1 4— . 1070, still lleti*.
1«96, st Wither, Wilkes Co., I. C., a., 74 Narrh 1001, henry

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(2)

(3)

(U)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

Neil Vannoy, b. 29 Jan. 1870; d., 9 June 1909. She supplied
much of the information on Vannoy families IV and VI, pages
356 and 361 herein. See Henry Neil Vannoy^ below for children.

(6) Judge Fowls Colvard®, b. , 9 Sept. 1881; d., 30 April 1902.

(7) Willian Edgar Colvard®, b. , 2l* Jan. l88ti ; d., 15 March 191*6; m.

5 May 1905, Sue Taylor. Children, (1) Rufus Winfield Colvard^,
b., 11 Sept. 1906; m., Rena Love; (2) Virginia Colvard0, b., 1*
June 1908; m., 8 June 1932, Deane McMillan*

Wiley T. Colvard?, b., 23 Dec. 1838; m. , Fannie Severt.

Sallie E. Colvard?, b., 17 Jan. 181*3; «*., as his first wife, Lee

(Leander) E. Whittington, b. 151* 5A6. Children, (1) Julia Whitting¬
ton®; m., Robert Bowlin; (2) Mary P. Whittington®, m. Dr. Edward
Warren; (3) Todd Whittington0, m. Ollle Staley; (1*) Hamp Whittington®,
m. Cora Staley; (5) Fowls Whittington®, m. Nancy Dancy. Lee E, Whit¬
tington married, as his second wife, Sarah Snyder and had sons named
Frank and Charles and a daughter named I la.

Peyton M. Colvard?, b., 6 July 181*1*; d., 10 Sept. 1876 in Clay Co.,
Nebr.i m. Saphronie Eller, b., 2 April 1852, in Wilkes Co., N. C.;
d., 9 March 191*3 at Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa. She was a dau.
of John Cleveland Eller , (Simeon^, John®, Peter^, George Michael^)
and his wife Jane Rebecca Montgomery. See Eller Family XIV herein
for children.

William H. H. Colvard^, b., 2 Sept. 181*5; death date not found;

1st. Martha McGlamery and had 7 children; m. , 2nd., Nelia Teague*
Rachel Colvard?, b., 23 Jan. 181*6; death date not found; a., Benjamin
F. Whittington. He was a son of Esquire Allen Whittington and his
wife Mary (Polly) Eller^. (Simeon^, John®, Peter*? , George Michael^-)
See Eller Family XII herein for children.

Thomas J* Colvard?, b., 9 Aug, 181*7; d., 19 Sept. 1885 S ■»., 1st., Mary
A. Whittington; «., 2nd., his sister-in-law, Mrs. Laura (Whittington)
Colvard, widow of Charles Cicero Colvard and dau. of Alexander and
Susannah (Vannoy) Whittington.

Children by 1st. marriage :

(1) Charles H. Colvard®, b., 26 Jan. 1872; d., 28 Nov, 1838; a. , 16

June 1897, Eliiabeth Vannoy, b., 13 May 1876. She was a dau*
of Lewis W. Vannoy and his first wife Louise Burkett. For
children of this marriage see Lewis W, Vannoy, page ppc 361*— 65.

(2) Oueen Colvard®, b., about 1871*; York Hutchinson. They had

several children.

Children of Thomas J. Colvard by 2nd. marriage:

(3) Wiley Pinkney Colvard®, m. Mary Shepherd and had seven children
as follows: (1) Dean Colvard Q who is Dean of Agriculture at

the State College of Agriculture and Engineering at Raleigh,
N, C.; (2) Deward Colvard^; (3) Ruby Colvard?; (1*) Arlene
Colvard?; (5) Mabel Colvard?; (6) Audrey Colvard?; (7) Carol
Wade Colvard?.

Charles Cicero Colvard?, b., 2 Jan. 181*6; m. Laura Whittington.

John Colvard?, died young, age 12.

Jesse Colvard?, died in war between the states.

Janes Colvard?, died in war between the states*

(3) Mary Vannoy \ b., 17 March 1818; died unmarried.

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(k) Jmm V*rji3jr , o., 10 *>». l* 73; a., 1*1. , 12 *arch 1546, (Ucane* dated 7
lUrch 1046), lUncy ElUr6, b., 10?5j 4., 1047. Sh» mi a dau. of Simmon
Ell*r~, ( Jol«P, hur^, Uorpo HlchaalM. Thty barf no cUldnn. Jmm
/inMy* aarrlad 7h , ) ia|. 1B49, Carolina Walter*. 9a a. 3rd,, ion
WMtUnftan, no Um.

Child ran ojr ?nd, n*rrl*r* « lib Carolina Dalton.

(I) Ellon Varner', 6, L* ll j «. MeM oloy T*rx^r, aaa of Andaman*,

(Jmm , batAar.iol^, John5, fmnclo^, JohnM. ChlLlron, (1) Wllay
7*nnoy\ (7 ) Oaltter T *«**“, ()> Alba* 7anrwy*l (k) MIIUm Twof.
(7) Wrlah Tutiay’, b, l§5),

(J) Elvira 7*rm->jr , b. 1050| a, llmMir Nrllnaory and bad aaaarol ehlld-

ran.

(5) Enoch To moy , b., 71 Jar. 1077, 4.. 7«
Walter*, b. 1076.

Jana 10«k, a., 70 Dm. 1045,

Chlldroai

(1) Harriott* T anrajr , b., 7 fab. 1047 1 a., John U tfMttlaftaa and bad
rhlldrar , (1) b*ry Aar Whl ttl^tai', b. , 107O| a., toman *Mnry |

(9) Illjr - W, b. 1*7), a. Tool hnapbamn ()) J*g» ^

Hurt r , b, 1 *T< i a. Harry Jbhraoai U) ball* *MttlA(Von , b, H
Obi, 1077 j a., 'ana 1 b

(7) ha«y I, f*«n®y7, t. 17 Oct, 10<1, a., Kirin* frlUhard *nd tel child,
ran, John B. Tanmy0, . Jan, 1070| (7) Cbarlna Taring, b,.
t inf, 10 77 1 ()) »*-*r«p*. b, * Uyi, l‘77| (6) allay C. Tamajr

b, kfl Hfth 100 1 1 (< Irik r*n«p0. t. . . *0), (6) UlUa

Tanaoy0, b. 77 A*«. 1M Nnap taf1, b., Jl Vapt. 1500, (0)

Nil ?am»] T . b., 77 Apr. 107 lj (7) Utter T*«rwy . b. 77 b*y 107)|

(10) Larry Tam**", b., 7 Vpl. 107?,

()) Jmm L, T annoy , b., 1) tea 10 , a. , 6 Jan, 1060, *1*17 OMltlnflon
and bad om tester, *^rt la Lwlaa Tanner*, b. , k b5* . 1001, aba
U| 71 9m, 1077, U1U I. WBAtUnyian and ha* k aana and 7 done*-
(1) bach UP TMnfJ, t„ I 1,4. . L Ma Mil 9m 6 ML 10*'.

Ida PiUllartoa and bad Alison aa foil (1) Jamla T*frwy^, b.,
17 Oaa. 1*»7 1 a. Laa "lllar and hnd ) t*p* and ) ylrUi (7) Annl*#
Tanner, b., t *Wr*fc 160b, d.. 7 Jam 107Oj (J UMftb Tanner0,
b, 1A boa, 10*0, a.. Main hartaaf. bo lian| (1) MlUr b. Tumor ,
b. , k Jar, 10b) | n», CatUrlm UuLy. >Uf* arm ton. Tally llm
»• >rwbbar«, T*.; Zaaao t. t.. ' 107k 1 It

brblal, Im 7 cMltnai (0) Witter I, fanner*, b., 17 bon, IM7,
n., lot, fnarl nr<T I •#, 7nd.# lUry AaKlny. Had 7 da*. tp flrvt,
ai»l ana am by aaoond aarrlap*, (7) Lilli* B. Tany , b,, 16 ^

1700 j a,, Clayton AlttlaiUa, bad 1 aon mated baa WM tt Inyton*!

Ml 6, Tnap®, b., 7) April 1W» a. , J. D. QtUyi, Bad
Mural cblltrani (7) famy Tam**0, b., 10 te«. 1736, d., 10 April
17)6, a. TV* m«r Cbarcb, V cM 1 Iran,

(<) bar y Ann Tanoy , b. c*. 1070, ite a. Lit., allay thlltl^toa «be
dlad, Sin a. 7nd«, Alaanndar IblUr. bad 1 aaa Ip and 7

*T **>.

(6) Viiarm h T*r*wp , b. , 15 Oct. 107k| dnalh data not f<aanr1| a., Ala
Whitt Lno ton.

CM L9i

(1) Ella* WMttlrptoa7, a.

John* an, ftey h*1 n*«r«l cM limn.

7

Vance Whittington , m. Sarah Jane Vannoy. They had several children.
Phineas Whittington^, m. Julia Faw and had children, (1) Bertha Whit¬
tington^, m. James Kilby; (2) Lola Whittington®, m. Charles McGlamery;
(3) Ebbie Whittington®, m. 1st., Alice Richardson and had li sons and
2 daughters; m. , 2nd., Dora Lankford and had one son9. (U) Gaither
Whittington®, m. Ila Staley and had a son Ralph? (5) Avery Whit¬
tington®, m. Velna Myers and had U sons; (6) Clara Whittington®, d,
at age 12; (7) Ouincy Whittington®, ra. and had 3 children; (8) Jettie
Whittington®, m. Joseph Childress and had b children,

Laura Whittington^, m. 1st,, 1870, Cicero Colvard and had (1) Thomas
R. Colvard®, b., 3 Dec. 1873; d., 18 Sept. 1932; m., 5 Aug. 1896,

Mary Ida Colvard, b., 16 Feb, 1868; d. , 26 May 19U6. They had one
son and two daughters. Laura Whittington^, m. 2nd., Thomas J.

Colvard and had ore son named Wiley Pinkney Colvard®, b., 22 Nov,

1881 who m. Mary Shepherd and had 2 sons and 5 daughters.

(7) James H, Vannoy^, b,, 9 March 1826; d, after 1856; m., 21 Dec. 1855, Mariah

E. Whittington. They had no children.

(8) Sarah Vannoy^*, b., 31 June 1828. She died unmarried.

(9) Catherine Vannoy^1, b., 17 Oct. 1833. She died in infancy.

flO) Neil Vannoy^*, b., 17 Dec. 183®} 9 March 1859, Emily Whittington, b. 1839.

She was a granddaughter of Simeon Ellex*^, (John®, Peter^, George Michael^),
See Eller Fanily XII herein for children, pages 177-187.

(11) Lewis W. Vannoy®, b., 22 Nov. 18U0; d., 1 Jan. 1927; m., 1st,, 2 Jan. i860,
Louise Burkett, b. , 20 June 18U1; deceased. She was a dau, of Jonas
Burkett and his wife Mary Faw. Lewis W. Vannoy^, m., 2nd., Mrs. Mary
(Whittington) Vannoy, widow of his nephew, James Vannoy, son of Enoch.
Children of first wife, all bom at Wilbar Co., N, C.

(2)

(3)

(U)

(1) Mary Jane Vannoy^, b., 10 June 1867; d., 12 Jan. 19U6; ra., 25 Jan.

1885, John L. Whittington. Their children were, (1) Eugene Whit¬
tington®, b., 5 June 1888; d., 19^2; (2) Ethel Whittington®, b., 23
Aug. 1890; d., 1891 ; (3) Otto Whittington®, b., 17 Oct. 1893; m.,
Ruth Shepherd, had 2 sons and live at North Wilkesboro, N. C.; (U)
Odell Whittington®, b., 1U July 1895; m., 25 Dec, 1921, Edna Whit¬
tington, grand dau. of Benjamin and Rachel (Colvard) Whittington,
They had 3 sons and live at Wilbar, N. C.j (5) Pev. Walter Whit¬
tington®, b., 30 Sept. 1897; m. Grace Randolph and had 2 sons; (6)
John Allen Whittington®, b., 3 June 1900; d., 8 Sept. 1917; (7)
Benjamin F. Whittington®, b., 18 Oct. 1902; d., 19 March 1936; (8)
Claude L. Whittington®, b., 23 March 1905; d. in infancy; (9) Anna
L. Whittington®, b., 13 Jan. 1908; m. Harley Bumgarner, had two
daughters and live at Goldsboro, N. C.

(2) Henry Neil Vannoy^, b., 29 Jan. 1870; d., 9 June 1909; m., 2U March

1901, Sallie V. Colvard, b., 1 Aug. 1878; still living, 1956, at
Wilbar, Wilkes Co., N. C. She is a dau. of Rufus Winfield Colvard
and his wife Nancy Elvira Whittington and a great granddaughter of
Simeon and Fanny (McNiel) Eller. She supplied much of the data
herein on Vannoy families IV and VI, pages 356 and 361.

Childrent

(1) Pearl Thelma Vannoy , b., 28 April 1902; d., 9 July 1903.

(2) Or* Elvira Tannoy , b., 9 Ray 19<X, d., umarrl*'*, 15 Jan. 1993.

Sha vaa • taachar.

(3) Rabal L. Tamwy", *>., ?1 >«. 1906, <>.. 17 July 1920.

( L ) !4f»r LavL* Twnof, b., 25 Jan. 1909, dM 26 Ally 1970.

()) Wlloy J. Tanncy7, b., L 9ov. 1071, *. In Canal* uraaarrlad.

(4) Jmta F. Tamoy , b., 5 Sapt. 1*73, a., 10 'apt. l°10t Tiola » inton.

CM Id rani

(1) Owyn Tannoy \ b. , 12 Ray 1913, a., 13 July 1939, Ralv* bar la Von.

(2) Fmd Tanr.oy , b., 11 AJ*. 1917. C raaarrlad.

(5) ElUabath (Llttla) Ta nrtaj , b., 13 Ray 1376, a., 16 Jam 1697, Charlaa

1. Colvard.

(6)

CM Lira n i

(1) vuincy t. Colvard , b., 1) "arch 1696 1 a. , Oil la e, .'mat.
(?) Ella C. Col vara , b., 16 kv. 1599, 4., U S*pt. 1910.

(3) Evan U C.lvard8, b., 7 Jan. 190C . .. H April 19V).

(4) Shaman T. Colvar-f", b., 4 Fab. 1905, a., 11 Ray 1936, Ifath

Try an.

( 5) Plato Col vara , b., 31 **«• 1906, d., 21 Rare* 1907.

(6) Carl F. Colvard®, b. , 77 Rardi 1906, a., 26 Ori. 19)4. Saa Ta

(7) Howard C. Colvard*, b., 7 Ranch 1910| a., 15 Oat. 19)6, Sail*

Fovlar.

(6) ter a 6. Colvard . b.,
•) " lar* 6. Colvard®, I ..

Collar ay* .

(10) Wad* R. Colvard , b.,
Thonaa R. Vannay , b., 9 bog

6 Fab. 1912, a.,

6 te«. 19 13| a.,

11 »c 1*16, d.,

. 1076, a., Huai*

7 Fab. 19)7, boaard fe
. .940, Hobart

13 July 192).

Cooby, taraaaal, and

Uvaa In •nMv'.r 'tat*.

Chi ldraai .

(1) Rary C. Tannav , *. Rnbart lirbland. Uvaa in Cragon.

(?) Lou l a* T«rr. »y , a. A. S. Rorriaon. Livaa in ' tala of •aahir^ton.

(7) Oora E. T*nn^7, b. , 19 Ray 1662, a., bov. 1904, tebart U Rlllar.

Faaily li ml in baa Raalco. Ckll<*ran all aattlad in tha aaat.

CM ldraai

(1) boa or Rlllar , b., 31 A44. 1905 1 a. Nolan Rbllan.

(?) Mil Ray Rlllar®, b.. 29 Sapt. 1909, t.rv»th barry.

(3) OUtT* U RlLr®, b., 19 In,. 1913, a., Oa rga Stalling*.

(4) Hobart L. Rlllar Jr.*, b., 15 Jana 1916, n., Ranarat Flat.

(53 OrvilU U Rlllar®, b., 29 Jaly 19??, a., Allan* FMlllp*.

CM Id ran of inrti Tannoy and hit moor) «lfa, Rra. Rary (Whlttlnfton)

Tarvx«ri

(8) Roby Tannoy7, b., 14 A««. 1*56, a., lot. Ettl* Hlby, a., 2nd., 5 ba«.

193?, R ary Irvat,

CM Lira a by fl rat wlfo, Ettl* Eilbyi
(1) In* Tannoy", a. Carl Rinton.

(?) Wllllaai Clifford Tanner , a. Tina Taylor.

(9) Julia Tannoy7, b., 14 A*f. 1066, o., 15 bov, l^OV, bailor S. Cot, d.,
1« >in* l«t4.

(10) Sal lia T. Tarn**7, b., 19 Aim 1669, a., 16 tec.^1912, Charlaa E.

Janfclna. “Mltrar, (1) Charlaa E. Janktm Jr.", b. 14 '*rt. 1914,

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(13)

O

m., 19 Apr. 1952, Allene Dean; (2) Lewis Hill Jenkins , b. 28 April
1926 (1916); m. , 28 Apr. 19U6, Lucile Russell. Family li^es in North
Wilkesboro. N. C.

Fanny Vannoy*, b., 11 Oct. 1891; m., 17 Jan. 1920, Frank Alderfer.
Children, (1) Garrett Alderfer®, b. , 25 Sept. 1928; m., U July 191*7,
Dorothy Scott; (2) Milton C. Alderfer®, b. 8 Jan. 193U.

Minnie Vannoy^, b., 27 March 1893; m., 9 Sept. 19Ui, D. T. Trivette.

Children, (1) Eleanor Trivettec
William Kuenzel.

b. , 23 Aug. 1919; m., 9 Sept. 1939,

Ethel Vannoy^, b. , 17 Not. 1897; m., 2l* June 192U, Dr. E. James Moore.
Children, (1) E. James Moore Jr.®, b. 17 July 1926, He is an atty.
at law in North Wilkesboro, N. C.

367

JONS TaWCT

Son of liUunltl Tinno^1, Fuillj I, p.

fahilj m

JONS UW\ MhUiinlil

John*,

Frucii , John1), b. 77 H*reh 1775, Ui

W: Una Co,, >, C. | d«, 1«U not faand, probably In Horjtaea Co., HI aoaurl t a. ,
Illsabath liltjjr, b. , 17 Jar., 1777, 4eu. of tfllllan * 1 lby of NllAa* Co,, ■. C. *to
and Mi iHoandanU (onarallj wrote Ua raM TvJbjr, John Ta may ( barbery ' re-
noaod to Klaaaurl, probably Hordlea.i Coonty, at an aariy data, H» la said to Kara
boon a aoldlor In l ha a my (Ohio Canpalfn of ITS W«<) of Iwanl An thorp mtw.

Children all bom, faelly record* »«t. near California, aoaluaa Co,, Mi-
irl. (feoord oepplled by la 1 nor* T, Olaon of 175 K. Tanpla St. .17.

Utah and 07 *••• flltaboth *lm of W Waal Trend Am., Mot 'print*. ArO.)

(1) Rather Tmbjr^ b. , ea. 17b7i 0., Ha 17 Haldol (NeKloha* . . Thar* oa* a
faelly of ) • ana and ) tnfttUn, too acne of *>aa oar* the fol lowl m 1

(1) Hobart Tantey7.

(2) John Tenhoy7.

(7)

lal Veafey , b., ea, 1799j a. , Ut., licence In tfllte* Co., C.,
dated 5 Jan. 1019, Harcarat (See Tin* lay, b. k Fab, 1 A01 1 I,, 10 Hercb
lfeb la Montfoeery Co,, Hd, She «u ■ tea, of Thonaa enl Steen (tmwn)
Tina lay, H* a, 2nd,, Klltabath Co* bat Hoi no oMldren tp bar, Ihlldraa,
all by flrat narrlet* oar*, (fanlly record*) j

'!) Frarca* Halloa VJbjr', b. 30 n'. 1M9, la HI .*•• Co., I. C.j a,.

All co

a., 75 Jm 1660,

it)

1F71 in tfllmt Co,, «. C.| 4., IF Jan.
a., 6 On, 1041, tlltaboih bwy, b.

J* boon, ana dmtMar

Stat ban Falblna,

Abr*hoo Idtrlr *7 ' , b., 7 fey
1F77, at A tchloan, I v*u, %

76 Aua 1F77/71, r#t. 1*9C, at Ate Moon, I ar ea*, Ife Ml •

dan, of Jmaa rflKla* R 0-7. b. 17fej 1, and Ma Tie*. •

Hary *nltli, t. 1T07| 1*V, “an, of Joo*r+ *nlth, • waaltty land

oonar of n»*tnorol«n1 Co,, Ta,, and hi* elf* Raney Freer, Job*
VlUtaa W*r aaa a aon of Jan»* >0*7, b. 1710 in Ehflenli 4., 1*0)
In featnem land Co,, Ta. arv* hi* elf# %*aan Eb*ll, Th» record of
thl* faa.1 ly aaa awppUad ty Sit* IlUabetli Kl<|* of M beat Or and
Aaa., Rot print*, lit,

Chi 1/lrani

(1) Hary K«rt«nl T»nty , b, 77 Ait. 1*J at California, » nllaoi

Co., Ho . , d, U Roa. 19U j o. John feC<*A. .

(2) Harla Loam (Ualia) TarJfcoy*, b., 7b :•<. 1*4S *t "Iddlaloar.,

Rowtgpary Co., feaaourli I? Jar.. VM at RwnooeU,

► r ., tanoaa, ha narrlod a* *or flra< ‘v • and *r- • hla
aifa, John Chrlatophar Callahan, b, , 77 Oct. 1079, at
Mwba, Co, Cork , !r*lond| d. , 76 R^ IU7 at Runmll,
bMM, She o. 2nd., 6 fee. 10*;, Juaa C, Rrlan, d., 77 Jon.
191F. There ware no ehllrmn by fed, oarrlat*. J«hr Chrtn-
tophar Col lahar, h*r flrat to abor t waa narrlad flrat on 17
Fab. 1653 to Ulan TrlfMth, b.. In Urtaehy, 6 Jan. lF30| d„
at chllfelrth, 19 t*pt. 1F67, Them earn fear children by Ma
flrat oarrlat*. ait, (1) Soroh llltoboth Collohon, b.. In
Stott* Co., fe., 7b fee. 10^1 (7> Maooorl CalUhor, b., to
fellV Co.. « .. fepftl 1F«| » fenry Clap Collahon, b..

In Ualnraton Co., 5 Roa, If F| (k) John ertp.a Callahan,
b.. 19 fepi. 1*/ .

368

Children of Maria Louesa VanNoy and her 1st. husband, John
Christopher Callahan were, (1) John William Callahan9, b., 19
Jan. 1861*; d., 5 June 1916; (2) Daniel Callahan9, b. at Parva,
Christian Co., Ill., 15 Nov. 1865; d., 16 Jan. 1931 at Rev,
McKean Co., Penna.; m. , 11 Dec. 1893» Mattie Wensell; (3) Ellen
Griffith Callahan0, b., at Pana, Illinois, 12 April 1868; d,,

19 Jan. 1919; m. , 15 March 1892, John T. Wyatt; (U) Ida Louesa
Callahan9, b., at Marshfield, Mo., 25 July 1870; d., 11 Dec.
19lil at Hot Springs, Arkansas; m. , 29 June 1890, at Hunnewell,
Kansas, John Andrei# Riggs, b., 5 Nov. 1868, at She lbyville,
Illinois; d. , 5 March 1936 at Hot Springs, Arkansas. They had
children, Eldbridge Marion Riggs13, Agnes Louisa Riggs13, Iona
Pearl Riggs10 and Dyron Riggs . (5) Joseph Rudolph Callahan9;

(6) Edwin Thomas Callahan9, b., 11 Nov. 1876; m., 9 Dec. 190U,
Eva Crum; (7) Ruth Mary Callahan0, b., 16 Aug. 1881; d., 20

Aug. 1885 at Tates Center, Kansas.

(3) Anna VanNoy®, m. Charles Lewis.

(li) Mary (Hollie) VanNoy , a, I. F. Peters.

(5) Ida VanNoy®, m. Mr. Dade.

(6) William VanNoy , a. Susan Hall.

(7) dive VanNoy®, m. Mr. Shaffer,

(3) Nathan VanNoy7 8, b., U Feb. 1823, ir. Wilkes Co., N, C,

(li) Rachel C. VanNoy7, b., 5 Feb. 1825, in Wilkes Co., N. C.

(5) William Thomas VanNcy7, b. , 13 March 1827, in Wilkes Co., N. C.; d.

2 March 1900, at or near Salt Lake City, Utah. He married 1st,,
Catherine Hendricks, r. 2nd. Agnes Birrell and a. 3rd. Katherine
Josephine Bagley. For children by these marriages see Vannoy (Van¬
Noy) Family IX herein, p. 378.

(6) Andrew Jackson VanNoy7, b. 3 Feb. 1829, in Wilkes Co., N. C.

(7) Humphrey VanNcy7, b. 15 Feb. 1831, prob. in Pike Co., Mo,

(8) John W. VanNoy7, twin of next below, b. 23 Dec. 1833, prob. in Pike

Co., Mo.

(9) James Nathaniel VwiNoy7, twin of next above, b. 23 Dec. 1833, prob.

in Pike Co., Mo., d. about 1895 and lies burled at Farmington, Texas.
He married 1st, Jane Hansford and m. 2nd. Nancy Stark.

Children by 1st, marriage with Jane Hansford:

(1) Nathaniel VanNoy®, b. 1 March 1853; d. , Hi Dec. 1899, at West

Point, Oklahoma; r. ., llj Dec. 1881, Mary C. Hanwick. Children,

(1) Lee VanNoy0, who lived or lives in Los Angeles, Calif.;

(2) A daughter0 who married and lived in Prescott, Arltona;

(3) A daughter who married and lived in Phoenix, Arltona,
Children by 2nd. marriage with Nancy Stark:

(2) Minnie VanNoy®, m. William Johnson and lived in Colllngswood,

Texas. They had children, (1) Turner Johnson9; (2) May John¬
son0; (3) Naomi Johnson0; (li) A son0, name not found; (5)
Another son°, name not found.

A

(3) James VanNcyP;

(li) Edward Van Nov

(5) Rondo VanNcy .

(6) Cora VanNoy®. She died at age 12.

(7) William VanNoy°.

(8) Mary be He VanNoy

8

(10) Sarah A. Var.Noy , b. 17 Oct. 1835, prob. in Pike Co., Mo,

(11) Mary E. VanNoy7, b. 20 Feb. 1837, prob. in Pike Co., Mo.

(12) Lor in* o C. Tantoy7, b. 1} Ao*. l*LO, profc. in fib* Co. , *o. M» m i-r lad

and according to fanlly racorde hod chll/*rar. ea follow*.

(1) 3eorf0 N. fMdtaf*.

(?) Sarah U fan toy .

()) Idward H. Tentoy*.

(h) John H. UrJkijr\

(5) J—»* C. Ten** .

(6) Abrehofi d.

(7) Cothorlno It.

(0) tan TantojT .

(f) Loreneo ten toy Jr. .

(13) >Urf«r*t T. fantoy7, b. 13 April 1®V3*

(3) tfllllm T>«*ei Tentoy\ b.. ea. IhOli «. Kary Hrlay.

Cl*) Aiv*row boy T«rfcy , b. M. l^Of, Hi •, fllieboth er> 1, ieeor* inf to Dm IP®
eonowt of Mb* Co., hod children *j follow*.

(1) leLKaMel »*rJbjr\ i<*1 i0. % •. bn* Hlllu*.

(?) J*r*nlft> Ckwlanl tatcy , »|*J *, No a. Anm arford.

()) •illian Hathan tar*^7, «(*1 7.

(k) John Colvin Tantoy’, 4 C.

(?) Jowl Anrtarooo fenfay7, *i*' l.

(6) Qrrlllo TuJby’, i|«! t.

(7) fnnollo Tantosy7, a«wd 1.

(?) Munphrry bf tin toy , b., •«, 10O?| ■« »»rU «a)*lA,

(6) Jaraoleh CUwUm r*rtoy , b. , ca. 1007 1 *. Jam Hoot*

(7) franca* SlUatwth T^.toy', o., ea. 1*09 1 a. Jam* U «Uby.
(0) Sarah Tentoy f b. , ea. 1*11 1 a. ^r*ar1rt ^nwlabr,

(9) Hary Tantoy', b., ea. 1*1)| a. trilllan HaowolU

370

JESSE VANNDY5

Son of Nathaniel Vannoy^ , Family V, p. 358.

FAMILY VIII

JESSE VANNCTT, (Nathaniel1*, John3, Francis2, John1), b. 2 July 3781; d. 26
Nov, 1875 at his home on Levis Fork Creek in Wilkes Co,, N, C, He married, 12
Jan. I80li, Mrs* Mary (Polly) Shepherd, young widow of John Shepherd whom she had
married 13 Oct, 1802 and by whom she probably had no children. She was bom 19
Sept, 178 5; d, li* Feb, 1961*, the dau, of William and Mary Ann Kilby of Wilkes Co,
of English ancestry. Both she and her husband Jesse Vannoy'’ lie buried in the
church yard of the New Hope Baptist Church about 6 miles north west of North
Wilkesboro, N, C, The will of Jesse VanncyC was written 18 April 1869 and pro¬
bated 29 Nov, 1875, It mentioned his "deceased" wife Mary and all children shown
below except Joel Eden and Frances Susannah, both deceased. It also mentioned
four of the children of his deceased son Anderson, namely Richard L, (LeRoy),

Elisa R,, James N, and Mary C. and a granddaughter Alpha Eller, who was a child of
his eldest dau, Elisabeth Ray Vanroy who had married John Eller Jr.^, (John3,
Peter^, George Michael1). John H, V annoy, the eldest son, and Alfred McNiel, a
son-in-law, were executors. (Will Book 6, p, 115, Wilkes Co., N. C.)

William Kilby, the father of Mary (Polly) Vannoy was an early settler in
Wilkes County. He may have been married twice, first to Frances (Frankie) Eddlns
and second to Mary Ann To Ids. He had a family of nine children as follows, the
first five, Drobably fcy his first wife. (1) Elisabeth Kilby, b. 12 Jan. 1777; m.
John Vannoy , (Nathaniel1*, John^, Francis^, John1) supra; (2) Abraham Kilty, b,
ca. 1779; m. Betsey Rash; (3) Sarah (Sally) Kilby, b. 20 Oct. 1780; m. Leonard
Whittington, father of Allen Whittington, supra,; (I*) William Kilby Jr., b. ca,
1783; m., 12 April 1005, Elisabeth Hulbert; (5) Manr (Polly) Kilby, b. 19 Sept,
1785; m., 1st. John Shepherd, m. 2nd. Jesse Vannoy^; (6) Ruber Kilby; (7) James
Kilby; (7) Fanny Kilby; (8) John Kiloy; (9) Humphrey Kilby.

Jesse and Mary Vannoy were farmers. Their farm was near that of his father
on Lewis Fork Creek, On 26 Nov. 1828 two parcels of land totalling 100 acres were
granted to Jesse Vannoy on the waters of Lewis Fork Creek. An additional 10 acres
were granted to hi* on 29 Nov, 1BU8. Both were constituent members of the New
Hope Baptist Church that was organised in 1830. Both were devout Christians, it
being said that he could quote passages fro* the scriptures, chapter by chapter
from memory. She was called Aunt Polly by her neighbors who proclaijed her to be
the most useful woman of her generation in the neighborhood. This was because of
her fine Christian character and her helpfulness to her neighbors in time of sick¬
ness and trouble. The family almost universally wrote the name Vannoy.

Children of Jesse Vannoy'’, all bom in Wilkes Co,, N. C,

(1) Elizabeth Ray Vannoy^1, b., 29 Oct, 1801*; d., 21* Aug. 1868: m,, licence is¬

sued in Wilkes Co., N. C., 20 Apr. 1820, John Eller Jr.*, (John3, Peter^,
George Michael1) b. 17 March 1798; d. date not found. Family lived on
Lewis Fork Creek in Wilkes Co. See Eller Family VI herein for children.

(2) Joel Eden Vannoy^, b. , 16 April 1806; d. , 15 Jan. 1826, unmarried.

(3) Sarah Jane Vannoy^, b., 1 Aug. 1807; d., Feb. 1897, unmarried.

(U) John Humphrey Vannoy^*, b., 26 Dec. 1808; d. , Nov. 1888; m., licence issued,

8 Dec. 1833, in Wilkes Co., N. C., Rebecca McNiel3, b, 1806. She was a
dau. of James2 and Mary (Shepherd) McNiel, (Rev. George McNiel1). He was
for many years pastor of the Baptist Church on Beaver Creek in Ashe Co., N.C.

Children, Family records and Census of Wilkes Co., 1850 and of Ashe Co*l860

and 1470.

(1) J«*m Torre? , b. 15)7; «. S»r«h, b, 1^0.

(?) Jam* Tiiroj', b. 1430. Ha protabljr vu tha Ju »a T«wiy ihoim la Ua
1470 Fad. Conouo of *aha Co. , C., t|*d 33 with vlfo Mabocca, »i*i

37 children, (1) tmlu, »iaJ 4| Joooph, »|r! ? and TSoam,
a*od 1. Anothor <4*o. »u Ella Tanruy^ who a* Mo 7nd« »lf«,

Ftv a Von “arrerr . aon of Andnav Jack a on Tanner6, Uoa»#r, ■abhAniol'*,
Jah«\ Fwncla*. John1 ' .

(3) VI 111 an Tarre?', b. 1037.

(4) Mary Anr Tanwf\ b. 1014.

(?) Carolina “amoy , b. 1047. ^

(6) Lou la a Tannery , b. 1690| *. Jaaaoa hod loon 11 lar , b. 17 Juno 104*Oj d.

IS July 17?0. A* » aj a oon of 1 tool an Klloi^*, ( Johrv , Nur ,
j»or«o Of lira* «u Dr. 1. J. filar of Modrtlot tnr,

rfliina Co.

(7) Mat l Ido (TlUo) Jarre?7, b. 109.

(6) ilaumbr Torre?7, o. 10S6.

(9) Vlloy T annoy7, b. 1060.

latr.ar lr» Inn To 14a Tarre?' , b.. 7b V». 1*10) 1. About 10 V), 1 leone*

laouad In Vllbao Co., >0 Boo. 10)1, Abljah Fol rrhi 14. Thoy had child ran,

nanaa not found,

Vllllan Kilby Tarre?', b., 70 n? 141?, d., 70 March 150? | a., Ueonco
laauod In Vllboa Co., 7) Inc. 1042, hatll*a Vhoolor, b. 10?). Ma «*a a
Col anal in i ha I. C. Militia and a Livutonant In Vho horcAao Indian bar.
Soar of hU do aeo relan to aa Iliad in Orafon. TSalr efelldran bhovn la il»
10SO Fodoral 'anna of Vllbaa Co. n

(1) Jana a Atllaar Tarre? , «|a4 7 la l»rO Mima and &< m 1070 conavo.

Mlo pantiora In %a Mopa Coaaota ry , north, aaat of Mordh Vllboaboro
• aya, b. 70 *-afl, 164 3 1 d, 17 May 1*?4. Ma a. ». C. MrlUl, i .

March 104*4» d, ' F.t. !♦??, 0n» of tho lr childror «u a dau«Mor

RUnourl T.nrny . t. 17 *ay 1077. d. unnarrlod, H Juno M7«

(9) U an dor T* nr?7, ayod S in vr« 1090 cami. tel a ho or. in 1070 caoaui,
()) iobort Tonref', o?»d ) in SO www and ?? in 1070 eaan • .

(6) bat ha ala Torre? , a«od 1 in l ha 10 SO raatw,

(?) Mary Twr?7, aaol 7 no. In Uw 10V) oonoua,

(6) Julia A, Torre?', or* * 17 In tha 1570 conouo.

(7) A if rad Torre?', a?ad 14 in uw 1670 conaua.

(6) Sarah Torre? :, ayod 17 In tho 1070 conaua.

Joaao VhltfUld Torre?6, b., L. Fob. 10U., d. About 107*. ha a., llconco
laauod in tfllboo Co., ?0 Sept. 16)7, lllaobotb FaircMld. Of oouoral
loouo »aa John Tonne? vho 1 had in VauU«(a Co., ». C.

Jonoa lothorlol Tar rx?’, b,. 70 Oct. 101S, d. , ?) Soft. 1001, roar >ront*a
Faoa, JoaapMm Co., Ontfon. Ma r»«tnol to Ora* an la 104.7 ohora oooo of
bio doacondnnto n<w Uw. Ono of Ma aona «ai UWraor Tarre? , vho nar-
rlod and hod aowral a ana , ard Iona Tar my 7 ro narrlod a Mr. eott.

tbrohnn Voalny Tarre?6, b,, 6 5opt. 1017| d., 77 Au«. 1071 in ••r-llo Co.,

I ovai 70 April 104? Al»y Sllorc, b. 17 March 16?6| d., 16 JvU 107?.

Hho vaa a dov. of Aboolw Kllav\ (John7, Star7, »~rr* Mtabaai*) and
Ma -•'# Sarab Mynrlda, (too lllar r^*ly TI hara lr. ) I* Arrll of l*ro.

the family migrated to Wapello County, Iowa going by covered wagon to
Johnson City, Tennessee where they boarded a train for Chattanooga some
200 miles distant. At Chattanooga they changed to another train that took
them to Nashville. At Nashville they obtained passage on a small river
steamer that carried them down the Cumberland to the Ohio River; from there
a large boat took them down the Ohio to the Mississippi at Cairo, Ill.,
and up the Mississippi to Keokuk, Iowa. At Keokuk they entrained again
for Ottumwa, Iowa where they arrived three weeks to a day after leaving
N. C. At Ottumwa they hired a man and his mule team to transport them to
the Harvey Eller home near Farson, Iowa. Here they stayed until they found
a house of their own which was located in old Marysville, a pioneer village
a mile or two east of Farson. Accompanying them on the Journey were their
eldest son Anderson Mitchell Vannoy and his young wife and two children
and seven other children, all of whom grew to full maturity and most of
whom married and had children. Their last child, Jesse Absolom Vannoy,
was bom in Iowa. All of their children and their parents lived their
lives in Wapello Co., loved and respected by all who knew them.

Children!

(1) Anderson Mitchell Vannoy , b., 13 May X6ii2i near Purlear, Wilkes Co,,

N. C.; d., 31 July 1906 at the home of his sister, Mrs. S. C. Wood¬
ruff, near Highland Center, Iowa. He married 6 May 1866, in Ashe
Co., N. C., Adeline Miller, b., 23 Dec. I8h9, in Ashe Co., N. C.j d.,
1937, in Wapello Co., Iowa. She was a daughter of George Washington
Miller and his wife Aley Hubbard. George Washington Miller was a
victim at the close of the war between the states, of cut throat
renegades who stole his horses and killed him when he resisted them.
Andereon Mitchell Vannoy waa a soldier of the Confederacy attached
to the airy of General Lee for 1861-1865. Their first home in
Wapello Co., Iowa was near Marysville. In 1873 he removed with his
family to near Alton, Osborne Co., Kansas. They remained here until
1875 when they returned to the former home in Iowa.

Their children were i

(1) Victoria Lieuellen Vannoy^, b., in Wilkes Co., N. C,, 3 March

1867* She m, 1st., 18 March 1882, Samuel Crump Darden, b.,

22 Jan. 1858, in Missouri. She m. 2nd., 25 June 1905 Shurman

Russell Knapp, b., at Dowagiac, Mich., 11 Feb. 1866. Family

after 2nd, marriage, lived at Covert, Michigan.

Children by first marriage to Samuel Crump Darden were:

(1) Liela Grace Darden0, b. 10 March 1883; m. Charles E.

Jordan of Ottumwa, Iowa. One adopted daughter.

(2) Jchn Mitchell Darden9, b, 10 Aug. 1886; d. U Dec. 1890.

(3) George Edward Darden9, b. 18 March 1888; m. March 1918,

Ethel Smith of Wichita, Kan. They had two daughters,

(1) Erma Darden1^ and (2) Ruth Darden^. Family lived
in Tampico, Mexico.

(U) Jesse Anderson Darden0, b. 15 May 1890; m., March 1918,

Hazel Kease of Rockford, ELI. One child was Jesse Victor
Darden, b. 19 Jan. 1919. Family resided at Rockford,

m.

Children by second marriage with Shurman Russell Knapp:

(5) Ezra Wayne Krwpp9, b. 10 Aug. 1909 in Chicago, Ill.} d, 13
Feb. 1912.

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(6) K *ry A da llna Knapp' b. and d. ?0 Jan. 1911.

(7) Mair* %iaaell K^app', «* adopted child, 6. 10 >Urch 1910.
(?) Robert Add Loon Vannogr ', b., In WlUtea Co.. *. C., 0 *o*. 1060 j

■ at Mo».f»tjr, Ill., ?9 Oct. 1996, Loella f ranee a Salth, t».
?7 Jam 107?, it Obeya, Marlon Co., Ill. Family mini at
Harlan, lava.

Qdl9«ni

(1) lV»r Millard Tawwjr', b., ?6 Oct. POO, In Nr^vi Co.,

111.1 , S Jana 19??, at 14a n, I Uho, IUa« 1 iUu 1 ‘fjr Wr ,

b., 1? «e». 19 X la ?enn. Family raaldal In Poc ale llo,

! taho.

(?) Klein la la on V«nn? y\ *. , ) fc*. 190?. In Fori Co., IU.

()) Hal an Adalliw Tarav^. b. , 19 Fab. 1906, In KarahnU Co.,

(b) Mary Clala T ann ay 9 , b. , ?) larch 1900, at Martina:* ng,
KaobMk Co., In«a.

(1) Kathar Ton^r9, b. , ?? March 1«U at Urtlnibari, Kaotrak

C°- a
()) »ei* W. Tanmy , b. ,

dapa llo Co., I«I| •

7 "arch 1071 »*er (UnrtllU
., >ily 1*9), '*rah 'aldoaar.

( C^petina),
F«rtlj

11 »ed at F rawara. , Taaa.

(b) hi4* Famlbal /anniyr^, b.. In hapeUo Co., lew, 10 March 1*7) |
4. n»ar MadrleS l»n* j C«. , Iowa, ?7 Fab. 1*91.

(*) larUj lorihw hawy , b. tm ar Campetirv, * ape llo Co., Sown,
bf. 1*7S| 4., 6 Vr l«b) at hi# saw In Irng Mach, riUf.
la a., ?9 tj», 1099, at ^kin, !aaa, Masada L. MtrheU, Ini. o f
• aai Leal la an-* Loo lea ' u-aan lU^all, laill? reeled In
Zoaa aatll 1906 «*an It raaoil f Irot to Utah, than to syomlnc
am In 1911 to California, la praal 'art of iha Calif.
Society of Ua Sana of t ha Uarlear bfalalloa and prnlnaflt
In the eletO affaire of Lr n< «ach where tm llfal.

(6> A lay Coma 11a Tannoy*. 19 Apr >«M0 1097 »•

Medrleb, Wan. An a,, b 9ayt, Ml 'o-jbla. So

(7) Obcar Martin Tarrgjr*, b. 1 Upt. 10*O| 1., 7 Jnl 7 1099, at
Medrleb, Iowa.

(0) Chaetar Arthar Tanrwjr*, b. >0 Jon. IF*)| 0., at lota,

19 Jan. 190c, bo* Margaret laid, b. 19 Arrli l‘V, *aa. of
Ntar Said. Family reel -wd at larlon, loan.

CMldnem

(1) **la La ana rd 7am*\ b. 1 So*. 1906.

(?) Inljm tllfcabath Ta wny4, b. 1 March 1900 .

()) Charlat Arthnr Tamay9, ’ So*. i«lc.

(91 Mary Sonloo V annoy*, b. 1* Fab. 108?| a., LL At*. 1«L\ at loon
Falla, Iowa, Million J. Cor*nha*«rf b. ?• Oct. 1000 at CKll*
hoala, Ta. Mb mi a • an of Mil Han hob l neon and Mary Franc*#
(Blarbant*~k lar' Coparjvaaar of !<**• Falla, Jana. Ha «ai bom
at CM lhmla, Ta. Fanllj ll*ad at MUhelrille, lava.

Ch 11 dram

(1) tf^rna Loator Copenhaaer9, b., ?) May 1«U.

(?) *1 lna Victoria Ccpenhavar9, b. ?9 July 19?b.

(10) all 11 an Fortar Vanhoy9, b. near HedrlNt , Jana, 71 Apr! 1 \**7»

372*

m., at Vancouver, Wash., 2* Aug. 1913, Ruth Frances Cleveland
Franklin, b. at Howard Lake, Minn., 21 Oct. 1892. She was a
dau. of Robert Franklin. Family lived at Eureka, Calif.
Children, bom at Eureka, Calif,

(1) Vernon Franklin Vannoy^, b. 1 June 19 Hi.

(2) Robert Glynn Vannoy 9, b. 2i* May 1920.

(11) Lester Cleveland Vannoy®, b. , 23 Nov. 1890. He lived in Chicago,
Illinois, unmarried. Now deceased. (See p. U37)

(2) Mary Ann Vannoy?, b. 182*6 in Wilkes Co., N. C.; m. George Bartlett

McNlel. Family lived in Wapello Co., Iowa.

Childrens ^

(1) Margaret McNiel , m. Charles Tinsley.

(2) Intita McNiel9. m. Mr. Mace.

(3) William McNiel-, married and had children as follows; (1) Ella

McNiel^ who m. Ulysses Hawthorne; (2) Cora McNiel^ who m.

Mr. Omdorf; (3) Lee McNiel^; (U) Hester McNiel^; (5) Guy
McNiel'5; (6) John McNtel0; (7) probably other children.

(3) Sarah Carolina Vannoy?, b., 12 June 1.82*8 ; d., 13 May 18 72* ; m. ,

Lafayette Eller-’, b., 1839; d., 1919. They lived in Wapello Co.,

Iowa and had no children that lived to maturity. He m. 2nd., Abagail
Phelps but had no children by her. (See Eller Family VIII herein.)
(U) George W. Vannoy?, b., 13 Nov. 1850; d. , unmarried, 28 Dec. 1881.

(5) Elza F. Vannoy?, b., 1856; m., Mattie Melson.

(6) Julia Vannoy?, b. i860; d. 27 Jan. 1938; m., George W. Davis who d.

25 March 1932*. Family lived in Wapello Co., Iowa near Farson. They
had a family of two sons and three daughters.

(7) Franky Matilda Vannoy?, m. Samel C. Woodruff. Family lived near

Highland Center, Wapello County, Iowa,

(8) Katherine Vannoy?, m. Alexander Melson and lived in Oklahoma.

(9) Jesse Absolom Vannoy?, m. Emma Riley.

(10) Frances Susannah Vannoy^5, b., 10 April 1819} died in infancy.

(11) Andrew Jackson Vannoy^1, b. 27 March 1821; still living in 1870; m., Sally

or Polly Reeves. Family lived in Ashe County, N. C. Family records say
he married Sally Reeves but the census of Ashe County of i860 calls her
Polly and of 1870, Mary. Their children were:

7

(1) Sarah Vannoy , aged 12 in the i860 census of Ashe Co.

(2) Charity Vannoy?, aged 10 in the i860 census and 20 in the 1870 census.

She married Noah Dixon and died in Pueblo, Colorado.

(3) Alfred Vannoy?, aged 8 in the i860 census and 17 in the 1870 census.

He may have been the child who, according to family records, was
called Dock Vannoy. If so, he married Jane Colvard and had children.
(1) Robert Vannoy® who lives in Penna.; (2) Benjamin Franklin Vannoy®
who lives in Wyoming; (3) Mollie Vannoy® who married a Mr. Fisher.

(U) Thomas Vannoy 7, aged 6 in i860 census and not shown in 1870 census.

He may have been the same as the son Preston Vannoy? shown in the
1870 census as aged li*. Preston Vannoy married 1st., Emily Turner
and 2nd. Ella Vannoy, dau. of James Vannoy? (Rev. John Humphrey
Vannoy®, Jesse Nathaniel^, John®, Francis^, John^).

Children by 1st. wife, Emily Turner, were:

(1) Ellen Vannoy®, m., J. Noah Dixon and lives in Welch, West Vir¬
ginia.

375

(?) lannla Ta nnoy , a., F. Bortla Jana a. fa'.Iy II ai In Waat

Jaffamon, *. C, Thalr ehlldran, all bom In Aaha Co., *• C,
am, (1) "V. Clyda Jonaa’, 4, 19*3*, Ha »»• a Ha lor In World
War I7| (?) John A. .'onaa°. Ha lima lit Wlnaton, Salau, C.j
()) F, Hartla Jortaa Jr,? Ha lima in Fomat City, «. C.i (fa)
Bobbla Jonaa° a*r a., lala, Mr, jantry and a. ?nd,, ' r. Hobart
C. Hay. tow living In Waat Jaffa raon, I. C«

Chi Lira n of Fra a ton ? annoy by hi a aacoavd w If a, Ella ▼ annoy i
()) Taa Faring® . Ha aarrlod a nd llvoa In loanofca, ».

Jaawa Fannoy7, a<^! ii In l ha 1*00 canaua and 1? In tha 1070 canaua .

Ha a. Ad tla Ellar,

Aaarlca 7*nnojr , agod 3 »o. In 1060 car-r-a and not • how-, in 1070 canaua.
Catharlna Vannijr , aft 1 9 In tha 1070 canaua,

Ha 17 Tanner', a fad 6 in tha 1070 canaua.

Jaaaa Tanner 1 , a fad U In tha 1*70 canaua. Ha a. Alva .'ana Go lvard and
had a faxlly of 7 ehlldian,

Dora T»nrwf 7, agad 5 uonthe In 1070 canaua,

Et via (Ella) Yarwvy , Accor dir* to fatally racarda aha narrlad 3. A.
Shtuu.

(1?) Hary Carolina Yarrvgr J , b. at har fathar'a fan an L*wia Fork Cntk, Wlllraa
Co,, I, C,, 10 Fab, 10?)| d, at tha t-ou* of har *ajghtar, Maggla !Wrt» in
Warallo Co., loua, 10 Jar. 1«X. (ilbla racov*a) 'ha narrlad ?5 lev,

1EL1. - -ka* :o., *. C, larmy Ellar*. "luaort^ John3, Nler^, worn

HlchaalM, t.. In WllJraa Go., C,, ?u March l*l«j d., at tha hona of hla
daughtar, »»rd« (EUar) *'arla, ) »ov. 1*06. (For ten about tMa family
aaa Ellar Faul ly ITII, pc. 1*‘ ha min.)

(13) Frarfcy Matilda T annoy \ b.. In Wllkaa Co,, ■. C., ?* 3#pt. 10?5| d., 1*»|
licanea laaund In Wllhaa Co., b *ov, 104L, Alfmd McFiai^, b. 10?5,

Ha van a aon of John I'lUl', (;uui'\ ha a. nonf»M an* hla wlfa toe ha 1
Ellor, • • aa, of John Ellar | star. Oooff Mich,- .

(ftaa Ellar Fanlly FI ha rain,) Tha cT. 1 Id ran of Frarjgr Hatll/U 7 annoy ’ and
har huaband, A Lf rad He » u 1 , vara found in tha canaua of *1 lira a Co, for tha
yaara 1050, 1060 and 1070, Thaaa canaua Uata pra tty daflnltaly prom
that thraa of thalr dillFan had plural g lun naui, ana glmn rvaaa balng
glaan than In tha oannua irua ration of ona yaa r and thalr othar naaa In
tha amnaratlon for anothar yaar ,

Chi Id ran 1

(1) Ananrla Me Vial , not ahovn in 1050 canaua but ahovn at aga lb in 1060

and ?3 In 1070. Sha u. Clam land EUar*. aon of Futar Ellar3, (Joluv*,
mcr f ** le haalM, Oa child «u Carrla Ellar mo a. Hr. Hayaa,

(?) Mary Ncllal7, ahovn aa of a«a ) in 1050 and ?? in 1070, Hot ifM in

!*'• .

(3) Ellaabath Mctial , not ahoun In tto rmru of 1050 or 1070 but •• of
ago 1? in 1060. Sha doubtlaaa vaa tha aana aa Mary rust abom, har
full gimn naaaa probably balng * ary Ellaabath,

(k) Saffrom (Saphrona) MrWlal7, not ahovn in tha canaua' of 1050 or 1070
hit ahovn a a agod 10 in tha 1060 canaua,

(5) Maehal toVlal7, ahovn aa agad 0/10 yaar in 1*50 and agod ?0 In tha

1*70 canaua but not ahovn in tha 1040 canaua, Apparantly aha and
O^ffrona vara tha aana child, har fall glmn naua probably balng
Fachal Suffrona,

(6) Carolina He Fla 1, ahoa at ago 6 In tha 1060 canaua but not ahovn In

(5)

(6)
(7)
(0)
(9)

(10)

(11)

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the 1870 census.

n

(7) Manerva McNiel shown at age 18 in the 1870 census but not shown in

the i860 census. She doubtless was the same child as Caroline, her
full given name probably being Caroline Manerva.

(8) Elender McNiel?, shown as aged 6 in i860 and aged 15 in the 1870 census.

(9) Leander McNiel?, shown as aged 13 in the 1870 census, but not shown in

the i860 census.

(10) Bennan McNiel?, male. Shewn aged 2 in the i860 census. Not shown in

the 1870 census.

(11) Sarah McNiel?. Shown aged 8 in the 1870 census.

(Ill) Anderson Vannoy^*, b., 23 April 1829; d., in 1862 at Winchester, Va. from
wounds received at the Battle of South Mountain in the war between the
states. He married, licence issued in Wilkes Co., 27 Oct. 1852, Martha
Wheeler. Four of their children, namely Richard L., Eliza R. (C), James
N. and Mary C, were mentioned in his father's will dated 18 April 1869 but
family records and the i860 census of Wilkes Co. indicate that there were
other children.

Childrens

7

(1) Richard LeRoy Vannoy , called LeRoy Vannoy in the i860 census, aged 7,

and Richmond 7annoy, aged 16 in 1870 census. He married Ellen
Vannoy?, dau. of Jesse Vannoy^, (James*’, Andrew^, John^, Francis2,
John1-). For children see Vannoy Family VI herein, p. 361.

(2) Catherine Vannoy?, aged 5 in i860 census. The 1870 census calls her

Elizabeth C. Vannoy, aged lit. She doubtless is the same as the Eliza
C. Vannoy mentioned in her grandfather's will. She married Smith
Watts and had a daughter Ellen Watts9 who married R. M. Church and
lives a few miles northwest of North Wilkesboro, N. C.

(3) James Newton Vannoy?, b, 6 July 1857; d., 17 March 1926; m., licence

issued 27 Oct. 1881, Cornelia Bumgarner, b. 28 Sept. 1865; d., 9
April 1936. She was a dau. of Adam and Folly (Brown) Bumgarner.

They had a family of 16 children as follows.

(1)

(2)

g

George Everett Vannoy . b.,
Hannibal Roscoe Vannoy", b.
b. 2 Nov. 1891; d., 1019.
Jefferson, N. C.

21 July 1882; m., Florence Maxwell.
9 Apr. l88h; m., 1st,, Ruth McNiel,
He m. , 2nd., Lena Poplin of West

Children by 1st. marriage with Ruth McNiel:

(1) Sue Vannoy9, b. , 17 Feb. 1915; m., Carl Colvard and had

one son, Carl Franklin Colvard Jr.1-1-, b. 30 Aug. 1939
at West Jefferson, N. C.

(2) Annie Vannoy?, b. 17 May 1917; m. , Russel Gray Jr. and

had children, (1) Russel Oray III10, b, 13 June 191:3;

(2) James Robert Gray1-®, b. 12 May 19U6; (3) Ruth Gray10,
b. 7 May 1950 at Wilkesboro, N. C.

Children of Hannibal Roscoe Vannoy0 and his 2nd, wife Lena
Poplin.

(3) Leet Vannoy9, b. U Oct. 1927.

(U) Kyle Vannoy?, b. 9 May 1929,

(3) Mary Ethel Vannoy®, b. 1 May 1886; m. James Davis.

(U) Robert Glenn Vannoy®, b. 16 May 1888; m. Lessie Phillips.
Children:

(1) Cecil Vannoy9.

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9

(?) EL* in or 7annoy .

()) Inas Twwjr^.

(Ii ) Robert 7annoy°.

(5) Susan Vanray^.

(6) illaabath (b*tty) 7annoy9.

(5) John Them** Tannoy* , b. ?3 the. 1669| a., Lor* Mils.

(6) *1111*0 Andrew 7«w>jjr‘, b. 5 Koe. I691j d. $ Au«. 192? s a.

Karel* Doa*.

(7) J«tM Albert 7 annoy , b. ?7 Karrh 1093» a. l*na Jlliian.

(6) Haiti* Kay Tannoy^, b. ?6 April 1094* i John Kclean.

(9) Tlnflnla 'are Tamajr^. b. ?U The. L096j m. ham.

(10) tflLllaa fcqrnor T annoy , b. ?9 Doe. 1096j a. Laei* KcVi*l.

(11) Klnltl* H**t*r Tannof' b. ?9 The. 1900| a. Archibald b«(am*

(1?) benedict Arnold 7enaqy^, b. k. Karc* l*0)j d. 71 1*19, ua>

r.

(13) Richard lartan Tamo* , b. ?6 July 191| a. Dorolfy Volt.

(lit) Jo**ph Conrad Ta way , b. 19 Kareh 1*06 1 a.. L? F*b. l*?9t

M*lan Whittington. F*nlly 11*** mar Korth Wl La* a boro, ■. C.

Chi Idiom ^

(1) >j1m ▼ annoy , b. 19 Kareh 1930| a. Clinton Osborn* anl
he** ehlllren, (1) Stephen Osborns^ and (?) Stanley
Osborns^. (

(?) Jo«*ph 7 array9, b. 13 Kareh 193ti d. yojns •

(3) Urn* Vamoy9. b. ?• Oct. 1*J,L.

(6) Frarh 7a rray9. b. 16 ho*. 1963*

(15) Carl John* on Taring , b. 16 ho*. 1909) a. aid* Thu re h.

(16) Clyde Salih tar. nay , b. ) Kareh l*llj a. Tire’.* H my.

(6) Karjr C. Tanrvay , asnUonsd la crandf *th*r' • *1 11, «4 a* Kary tmnay ,
a*ad 0 ao. in 1660 oanau * , and a* *i*i 10 in 1670

(5) Doans Tannqy ^ a. Elijah Or* *r.

(6) Msslar Tanner , a«*4 5 in 1670

■ • 5 ha a. Darld KeOlaasry.

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WILLIAM THOMAS VanNOY7

Son of Nathaniel Vannoy6. See John Vannoy5, Family VII, p# 367.

FAMILY K

WILLIAM THOMAS VanNOY7, (Nathaniel6, John5, Nathaniel4, John3, Francis2,

John^) b., 13 March 1827, at California, Monteau Co., Missouri; d., 2 March 1900,
at Richmond, Cache Co., Utah. He m. , 1st., in 1851, Catherine Tabitha Hendricks,
b», 2 Aug. 1832; d, about 1880, by whom he had 11 children. She was a daughter
of James and Drusilla (Dorris) Hendricks. He m., 2nd., 25 Dec. 1B59, Agnes
Birrell by whom he had 11 mare children. She died 21 Feb. 1879* Agnes Birrell
was bom in Scotland where she first embraced the gospel of the Mormon faith. She
was a daughter of William and Mary (Neil) Birrell. He m. 3rd., 21 Feb. 1891,
Katherine Josephine Bagley, b. Hi Sept. 1870, at Grantsville, Tooela Co., Utah
and by her had b children. She was a dau. of Emanuel and Mary Ellen (Pope) Bagley.
She married secondly, Elijah S packman and had 3 children.

In 18U9, at age 22, William Thomas VanNoy started for the California country
and got as far as Salt Lake City where illness forced him to stop. A Mormon
family took him into its home and rnrsed him back to health. In gratitude he
accepted the Gospel of the Church of Latter-day Saints, and was baptized 18 Dec.
1850. As already stated he married three times and raised a family of 26 child¬
ren. His home for the most of his life was at Richmond, Cache Co., Utah. In
1878 he homesteaded 160 acres of land some twenty five miles north of Richmond on
the Bear River in Idaho. He also was a Joint owner with three others of a saw
mill in Beaver Canyon in Montana. On a Journey to Ogden, Utah in 1881-82 for
repairs for his mill, his train was wrecked and his left leg so badly crushed that
it had to be amputated below the knee. He was beloved by his neighbors, a local
violinist of note and a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Some of his work
now reposes in the relic hall of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City.

The following record of the twenty six children of William Thomas VanNoy by
his three wives was supplied by his daughter Zelnora (VanNoy) Olsen and by his son,
the late William Dorris VanNoy. See letter of Harley A. V annoy to this writer
dated 17 Oct. 1925 and correspondence, 1956, with Zelnora (VanNoy) Olsen of 105
East Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The children of William Thomas VanNoy7 by his first wife Catherine Tabitha
Hendricks, all now deceased, were the following.

(1) Margaret Am VanNoy®, b., 7 Jan. 1852; m., Henry Overly.

Children:

(1) Elnora Overly'*.

(2) Flora Overly9.

(3) Henry Overly Jr.9

(h) Lillie Overly9.

(2) William Dorris VanNoy*, b., lb Oct. 1853, in Salt Lake City; m., 13 Jan.

Abagail Pond, b., 11 Jan. 1857, in Salt Lake City. Family lived first

Salt Lake City, then at America Fork, Utah and in 1925 at Los Angeles,

, e

The children of William Dorris VanNcy and his wife Abagail Pond were;

(1) William Clarence VanNoy9, b. 1 Dec. 1876; m. Adelaide Mace and had
children, (l) Clarence Rjy VanNoy1^, b. 5 Nov. 1900 at Lehi, Utah;

(2) May VanNoy 10, b. , 18 Nov. 1901, at Rexburg, Utah; (3) Ora Adell
VanNoy 10, b., 8 Jan. 190li, at Provo, Utah; (b) Ethel VanNoylO, b..

1876,

at

Calif.

379

12 Sapt. 1906, at Lahl, Utah; (5) Ada TanUoy*0, b., 17 Au(. 1906, at
Hirray, Utah; (6) Lou lav VanHoy'^, b., 25 H o*. 1910, at Salt -aka
City, Utah; (7) Florvnra VanJCoy10, b., 13 April 1912, at Glandala,
Calif.

(2) Baatrlca Roaa Va rHay*, b. 17 April 1863; a., 11 Sart. 1901, Ryrua C.

Healj and had ehlldrar, (1) Wllllaa Carbon Hrai y*3, b. , ? Jar. 1903,
at Salt Laka City, Utah; (?) Baatrlca Elvira Haaly*®, b. 7 April
194i; a. Jma J. Doway; (3) Lavama Abagall Haaly1®, b. 10 Sapt.

1906; a., ?1 Fab. 1925, Clara Id C. Bowan; (L ) Evan TanHoy Haaly*3,
b. 20 Jar. 1909; a., 30 Parch 1930, Katharlna Foa.

(3) Catharina Lavama TanHoy9, b. 16 Jan, 1665; a. Hobart Franklin Boy la a.

ho laaua.

(L) Lanora Abayall TanHoy0, b. 29 'me. 1666; a., 29 Juna 1910, rarotal

Ebanatar For tar and had children, (1) Dorrla Orton TanHoy Bor tar1®,
b, 26 July 1911; a. lat., 19)7, Panda 11 la Ida Euyfcandall who
Juna 191*6, laavlnc no ehlldrar.. Ha a. 2nd., 17 Xly 1950 Pro, Ha lan
Oorotiqr Tarlty, bom Ha lan Oorethy PeCahlll. Ho laaua. (?) Paul
Botina or Tan Hoy Parlor*®, b. 6 Oct. 1912; a. Thalna Thorall; (3)

Philip H»dfor TanHoy Porta r 10 , b. 26 Parch 191L; a. lat. Audrey
Shaaby, no laaua; *. 2nd. Evarrvlyn farguarlta Qatranrdar. n« d«u.
by 2nd, mrrdarv; (b) LaTvma la Hora TanHoy Portar^, b. Aug.

1917; a. Tarry Falla Harrloon.

(5) Zall* la TanHoy9, b. If Sapt. 1691*; d. A JUna 19C‘ ; a. Frvdvrlak

• . hntl and had ehlldr* .) Jana a*®; a. Paul C. Foa; (?)

Batty Harrla*®, a. Pr. hauaiir; (3) Tlrflnla Marrla*®, a. Pr. Cork;
(b) Roma Ja an Parria*®; >r. Lloyd Pillar.

(3) ^ruallla Dorrla TanHoy*, b. 30 Ho*. 1657; a. lat., Albart Breaking and a.

2nd., Joaaph P. ■alkvr.

Chi Id ran by first aarrlaca * 1th Albart Rroarii^i

(1) Paulina Prvallla Browning0, b., 25 Dae. 1*77, at Ofdan, Utah; a. lat.,

Add Pllaa and a. 2nd., Frodarlcfc P. Andvroon.

Chi Id ran by f 1 rat Mrrlaga with Add PI la a | (1) LaTatta Paulina
Pllaa1®, b. , 23 Ho*. 1692, at Pink Craak, Idaho; a. Raymond Sullivan;
(?) A laa Pllaa1®, t. 1*9), at Pink Craak, Idaho. Chi Id rar by 2nd.
aarrlafa with Pradarlck f. Andvroon; (3) Fra da rick Albart Andvraor1®,
b., 13 Fab. 1903, at Ogdar , Utah; a. “yrtla Florvnra O'Hall and had
ona dau. Parllyn Patricia Andaroon1*.

(2) flora Pay Browning9, b. at Qgdar , Utah; a. toward tolling • worth and

had ona da* . , Florvnra Hoi llrgawortP*®.

(3) Allla Browning0.

Chlldror by 2nd. aarriara with Jo«aph M. Walkvr.

(It) Joaaph H, Valkar Jr.9, b. at Pink Craak, I ••ho,

(<) Irlca Balkar0, b. at Plrk Craak, Idaho.

(6) 7 1 lata aalkar , t>. 17 Fab. 1*66; a. 27 Sapt. 1905, Franklin T. Handrlcka

and had 12 chll^ron aa followa;

(1) La 11a Paulina Handrleka*®, b., 2? Aug. 1906, at Richmond, Utah;

12 July 1926, Eroaat Pillar; (?) Baatrlca Lillian tondrlcka13,
b. 23 Ho*. 190f . ?6 Juna 19)6, Carl P. Jonav; (M In tondrlcka*®,

b., 11* Aug. 1910 at Richmond, Utah; a. r*an Kodgva . ((*) Alnlro

Handrlek#*®, b., 9 Oct. 1912, at Qkford, I'aho; a, V#m or Blair; (5)
Franklin ''aronport Nan<*r , b., lb Fab. 1916, at Fro (ton, Idaho;

(6) Af ton Handrlcka'®, b. 8 April 1916, at Pro • ton, Idaho; (7) Carma

Hendricks^, b., 8 May 1919, at Preston, Idaho; (8) Kenneth Malcom
Hendricks10, b., b Sept, 1921, at Swan Lake, Idaho; (9) Glen Lincoln
Hendricks10, b., 12 Feb, 1929, at Swan Lake, Idaho; (10) Farrell
Hendricks10, b, 19 Sept, 1927, at Preston, Idaho; (11) Claudia
Hendricks10, b., 2 Oct, 1930, at Preston, Idaho; (12) Inez Hendricks^*
b., 7 Dec. 1933, at Preston, Idaho,

(7) Glen Walker^, b, , at Ogden, Utah,

Q

James Nathaniel VanNoy , b. 9 Sept, 1899; m. Adelaide Lewis, b, 20 Feb. 1899,
They had a family of ten children as follows.

(1) Nathaniel VanNoy^, b. 29 July 1879, at Richmond, Cache County, Utah.

He m., 19 Dec. 1901, Iva P, Maxfield and had children, (1) Nellie
Lorette VanNoy10, b., 2 Sept. 1906, at Richmond, Utah; m., 26 Feb.
1923, Gordon Smith; (2) James Nathaniel VanNoy10, b. b Nov. 1908;
m., 6 Sept, 1927, Anna Schirtecly; (3) John Maxfield VanNoy10, b.

ID Nov. 1910; d, 10 Nov. 19b7. (b) George Leo VanNoy10, b. 3 Jan.

1913; m., March 1936, Helen Staford; (9) Lewis Maxfield VanNcy10,
b., I* Jan. 1916, at Metropolis, Utah; (6) Donald Glen VanNoy 10, b.,

12 May 1919, at Buhl, Idaho; d. 6 June 19U 9; m. Angie Springstead;

(7) Lucile Catherine VanNoy 10, b., 26 Jan, D 921 at Buhl, Idaho; ra.
Conrad Henrich; (8) Mildred Addie VanNoy10, b., 11 Feb. 1923, at
Buhl, Idaho; m., 8 April 19b9, Hugh Cottron; (9) Ralph Marion
VanNoy10, b., 23 Feb, 1927, at Tahama, California,

(2) James Leonard VanNoy9, b., 10 Jan. I883, at Richmond, Utah.

(3) Amelia May VanNoy^, b. , 26 April 188b, at Beaver, Utah; m., 10 Feb.

190b, Alfred W. Bishop and had eleven children as follows; (1)

Albert LeRoy Bishop10, b. 29 Dec. 190b; m., 9 July 1936, Ruth Barton;
(2) Leonard Lewis Bishop10, b. 30 March 1906; m., b Sept. 1929, Agnes
Thompson; (3) George Edward Bishop10, b. lb July 1908; m., 19 July
1932, MAdge Gray; (1) Venna Bishop10, b., 9 April 1910; m., 19 July
1932, Maurice Howard; (9) William Ralph Bishop10, b. 6 Dec. 1911; m. ,
9 June 1939, Melba M. Hansen; (6) Jessica May Bishop10, b. 18 June
1913; m., 1 June 1937, Leslie Shelton; (7) Evelyn Bishop10, b. 10
May 1919; d. Dec. 1919; (8) Grace Bishop1-0, b. 29 June 1916; m., 2
Jan. 19bl, Gerald Nelson; (9) Ellis John Bishop1-0, b. 20 Nov. 1919,
at Centerdale, Utah; d. 7 Jan. 1921; (10) Vernal Reid Bishop10, b.

11 July 1921 at Ricfanond, Utah; m. , 10 Nov, 19b3, Ella Jean Carlson;
(11) Alta Myrel Bishop1-0, b., 30 March 1929 at Richmond, Utah; m,,

19 Jan. 19bb, Dale James Archibald.

(b) Kathleen Lorette VanNoy^, b., March 1888, at Camas, Idaho.

(9) Rnloh Lewis VanNoy0, b., 8 April 1889, at Camas, Idaho; m., b Oct. 1911,
Mary Ann Gibbs and had five children as follows; (1) Boyd Ralph
VanNoy10, b., 29 Nov. 1913, at Pocatello, Idaho; m., 30 July I9bl,
lone McQueen; (2) Venna VanNoy10, b., 18 Aug. 1919, at Valley, Utah;
m. David Gruber; (3) Melvin Joseph VanNoy10, b., 20 April 1919, at
Richmond, Utah; m., 18 June 19bl, Owen Carter; (b) Lora VanNoy10, b.,
26 Nov. 3921, at Richmond, Utah; m. Odis Murms; (9) Fay VanNoy10, b. ,
lb Dec. 1923, at Richmond, Utah; m., 18 March I9b3, Maurice D. Thomas.

(6) William Ernest VanNoy0, b. 31 Aug. 1893, at Dubois, Idaho; m., Nov.

1915, Ida Olphin and had three children, (1) Lowell VanNoy10, b. Aug.

1916, at Richmond Utah; (2) Gene VanNoy10; (3) Phillis VanNoy10.

(7) George Lewis VanNoy0, b., 31 Jan. 1897, at Riverdale, Idaho; d., 30

May 1899.

(8) Herbert Adamson VanNoy0, b. 29 Feb. 1899; m. , 2b Nov. 1920, Neita

Lewis and had three children, (1) Joice VanNoy10, b., 12 Feb. 1921,

)01

it Hichnond, Utah; (2) 7had iaui Tarloy*®, bom it Logan, Utah; (3)
Donald VinVy* bom at Oakland, Calif.

(9) Lowall Charlaa Tank ay9, - . 1900, at tlMrdala, I da hoi a., 20

Juna 1923, A-*a Day and ha 4 Um chlldran; (1) Lola Tan lay b. ■

March 192b. at Flehnon4., Utah; a.. In 19L7, **ldnay Darratt; (2)

Jan Varloy^, b., Mo*. 1*379, at 3 art land, Utah; ()) E. anMoy*0,

b., April lr-3°, at Fraston, Idaho; ■*. 30 April 1939*

(10) Lao Law4. «oy°, i., ?L July 1907, at *lehnon4, Ota • . ?5 July 1909.

(5) latharlna Matilda Tar.Bay
and
(1)

April 1000;

follow# J

a., 17 Jar. 1076 Israal J. wit

had alaaar. et. ll-^ran a a

Israal J. Mat Jr.9, b. , ? Jan. L" 77, at Qgfea, Vtah; d.

7 March

(2) Aranda Maa Mat’4, t., 10 F* . . . :

If 77.

(b)

(?)

(6)

(7)

(0)

(9)

(10)

(U)

If 96, Isaac H. lash and had ala chlldran, (1) Martha laah^, b. )
Jan. 1900, at rrar» lahoj i.t,.- 1 Lynn Hash13, b.,

30 Oct. 1900, at Frank : latoo, a. 1st. Talna 3 inghan and a. 2nd.,
Lillis Churchill; thara vara two chil *r»n by flrat, ard no ehlUran
aarrlayat (3) Josla **• , U a; rt 1 1902; a. lannath

An'araor. ;
(?) Alica

(3)

(L) Alton aaat Mash*0, t. li March 1906} a. ktil Adblphi
Mash*0, b. Ub Aug. 19001 a. bifHW T, Janklna; (6) laaac
Bartraa **aah*° b, 37 March 191Li . .tabalh . .910.

Ada lata 11* Ifefft - ■ . .*00; a., 1 Oct. 1096, ldn*nd 3. Far*

son and had ala chi Id ran, (1) fhan4 «• at Farklnaon10, b. 20 Vy lr07,
at haaburc, Idahoi «. Ina Jana Craarj (2) fcith ^rtrtnafln*0, b. ? Jar.
190L ; a. Mack Ntaraor j (3) Tar d»at Fartlnaon*0, b. 1906; a. alia
F. Farklrson: (b) Spancar M. Fart lnaon*°, b. 23 Oct. 1910 j «# Alta

19101

tfsndall

Janaan, b. 10 Vy 1910i ( *) E-*t«F rf. Faftlnaon*0, b. 11 Auf.

*. * »' . ' - - «• - c - • -

Tout, b. 7 "uc. 1911.

Oaorpa W. Uaat9, b. , 27 "UC. 1MJ, at Orlan, Utah.

. •ait’, w t0b| Lfl *Uy 1912, Etta : ha riot la Young

and had four chlldran, (1) ballla Tlorli Mat*0, b., 2h Juna 1913,
at Big Tlat» , l| I* VUUm t . Ulrt (t) I nil Mat*0

b., 1 Juna 1915. *t Coluataa, Montar* Donald lari Hast*0, b.,

16 Juna 1917, at Coluahus, Mon tana | (b) *arl lira a#at*°, b., 21
March 1921 at Col.aoua, Fontana.

Loranao Mast , b. 16 March if‘6; a., 16 M«y 1910, Klnora uaaaar and had
thru# chlldran, (1) Lovla Lynar Uaat*0 b., 27 Auu 1913, at Big
T labor, Montana; (?) Matilda Qcla —it*0, b., }0 *». l«Lk, at Blf
Tiabar, Montana; (3) Ocrotlgr llaina watt*0, ‘ t. ,

Mjrrtla Feint, Ora yon.

Ills# aaat9, b. 2? Mo*. 1007; a., 3 April 1907, Frad allllaa Olaan and
had ala chlldran, (1) Inland aaat Claani0, t. 16 Fab. 1900; a. 1st.,
March 19?3, Thai** Arabia who dla* In 10M, ; ha aarrtad 2nd., 26 May
193?, Irana Barth; (2) Fayuond Uaat Olaan10, b. 1L Fab. 19^; a., 26
May 19K, Ra OM ^dwll, (J) A'.Ura Olaan10, b. < Fab. 191);

a. , 10 Aug. 1933, Ardall Charlaa Jaroba; (b) fbrls Catharlna Olaan10,

b. 1 Fab. 19 1* j a. , & Ott. lc)7, a- «• Arthur Mkarca; ( %) ¥1)111

t 01 aan*°, b. 6 dart. 19?t; * Afrtl M r laa Navavangwri

(6) Moraa Cllaa Olaan , t>. % 1° 7 c , at Butts, Montana; d. 10

Suyt. 19M.

Vpwrd Watt9, b.. It -art. lM9, at Fraaton, Idaho; <*. 79 Oct. 1**9.

Tan watt9, b., lb March 1*9\, at Fra at or, I *ahoj d. 19 April l®Ot.

Lawls Conrad witc, b. 16 Auf. IF93; a,, 0 May 191F, Ala M. rfhlta.

Harry Alton dast9, b. 79 Auy. 1F9C,

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(6) Elizabeth Vilate VanNoy“ , b. 1? Jan. 1862; m. , 25 July 1883, Frank J. Hudson

and had six children as follows;

(1) Amelia Kay Hudson?.

(2) Frank Hudson^.

(3) Leonard Hudson^.

(U ) Edna Ellen Hudson^.

(5) Norman Hudson^.

(6) Allen Hudson^.

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(7) Frances Josephine VanNoy , b. 30 April 186b; m. Thomas Smith and had eight

children as follows;

(1) Thomas William Smith^, b. 31 July 188b; m., 1 Nov. 1916, Naomi Neely

and had three children, (1) Thomas William Smith Jr.*°, b. b Aug.

1917; m., March 19bl, Mildred Clinger; (2) Ruth Smith, b. 16 Jan.
192b; m., 6 Sept. 19bb, Alvin Lyle Smith; (3) Jay Miller Smith*0, b.,
26 Nov. 193?, at Rexburg, Idaho.

(2) Clement Smith?, b. 29 Jan. 1886; m. Sybil Jensen and had 6 children,

(1) Clement Smith Jr.*°; (2) Mary Smith*0; (3) Harold Smith*0; (b)
Frances Smith*0; (5) Leo Smith*0; (6) Patty lone Smith*0.

(3) Frances Jeanette Smith9, b. 31 Sept. 1888; m. George R. Swainston and

had five children, (1) Leora Swainston*0, b. 2b Feb. 1909; m. Shirley
Loosli; (2) George Donald Swainston*0, b. 8 Oct. 1911; m. Dorothy
Wright; (3) Erwin Smith Swainston*0, b. 18 Nov. 191b; m. Ruby A.
Andrews; (b) Erma Swainston*0, twin of next above, b. 18 Nov. 191b;
m. 1st., Paul C. Crandall; m. 2nd., Chester A. Latham; (5) Rhea
Swainston*0, b. 23 Jan. 1922; m. Everett Little.

(b) Loraine Smith?, b, 22 May 1891; m. David Clyde Beckstead and had three
children, (1) Raymond Beckstead*0; (2) Allen Beckstead*0; (3) Dorcus
Lorain Beckstead*0.

(5) Francis VanNoy Smith^, b. 9 Sept. 1893; m. May Hylton and had two

children, (1) Vernon Smith*0; (2) Anna May Smith*0.

(6) Leora Smith?, b. about 1896; died young.

(7) Vemard VanNoy Smith^, b. 9 Oct. 1900; m. b Aug. 1922 Willamelia

Coleman and had six children, (1) Betty Adele Smith*0, b., 12 March
192b, at Driggs, Idaho; m. , 16 May 19b5, Marshall Earl Noel; (2)
Valeria Smith*0, b. 5 Aug. 1925; m., 18 Jan, 19bb, Thomas J. Daniger;
(3) Marceline Smith*0, b. 23 Aug, 1927 ;m., 18 Sept, 19b6, Max Lowell
Combe; (b) Floralyn Smith*0, b. 8 April 1929; d, 2 June 1929; (5)
Vemard Coleman Smith*0, b., 20 May 1930, at Driggs, Idaho; (6) Carol
Jay Smith*0, b., 29 July 1935, at Ogden, Utah.

(8) Zina Smith0, b. 23 Dec. 1903; m. Lawrence Price.

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(8) Alice Rebecca VanNoy , b. 30 March 1866; m., 31 Aug. 1881, Thomas Edward

Walker and had eleven children as follows;

(1) Albert Edward Walker0, b. 2 June 1882; m. Julia Walgreen and had one

adopted daughter named E]va Walker, b. 3 Sept. 1919 who married
Glen Gibbons.

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(2) William Acel Walker , b. 30 July 188b; m. Fannie Halstrom and had four

children; (1) Eva Pearl Walker*0; (2) Fawn Walker*0; (3) June Walker*®;
(b) ’William Sterling Walker*0.

(3) Mabel Rebecca Walker0, b. 12 June 1886; m., 21 Nov. 1906, Delbert

Mecham Packer and had eleven children, (1) Ora Packer*0, b. 20 Aug.
1907; d. 22 Aug. 1907; (2) Oral Packer*0, twin with Ora, b. 20 Aug.
1907; d. 15 May 1908; (3) Mabel Virginia Packer*0, b. lb Oct. 1908;
m., 1 Feb. 1928, Henry Cammack; (b) Lorene Packer*0, b. 5 July 1910;

a. , 19 Oct. 1927, Oral Hovall; (5) Da loan Olo Packar10, o. 25 A; n*
1912; a. 7 Oct. 19)1, Ora Haa Eofoad; (6) Hoaa Walker Packwr10, b.
lc April 191L; a. Maalne Hoboly; (7) Hlllla Allca Packwr*0, t>. 12
How. 1916, at jraea, I daho ; d. 27 Oac. 1916; (6) Hlldred Elrtra
Packor10, twin with Hlllla, b. 12 How. 1916; d. 26 Hac. 1916; (9)

Don Edvard Packar*0, b. 25 Sopt. 1910; a., 6 Auf. 191*1, Harcla rear. ;
(10) Daway 9ud Packar*0, b. 21* Fab. 1922; a., '1 >0. low,, 'kjrla
Jaar F i n^a ; (11) Utana Walker Packar10, b. 23 Sapt. 1925; a. Jay
Hockatraaaar. Fatally Hired In tocatallo, Idaho and rakarwf laid.

Call/.

(ii) kora Haratta Walkar', b. 3 Ray 1**7; a. Lau renca 3 , Janaar anri had

four .lan Harry Janaan*0, b. 13 Sapt. 1913; (?> Alloa

India Janaan*c, b. lr Aina 1«> 1 c ; ()) Oaoffray Janaan10, b. i* Hay
1917; ft) Tkonald Ryma Janaan*0, b. 6 April 1919.

(5) Llnrllla «. Walkar9, b. 21 Auf. 1*9*; », vj na Lo-ana Will xr 4 hal four

children, rl) Al*a Walkar10, b., ?l Oct. 1916, at Ogdon, 2)

Jack Will Walkar*0, b., 11 March i«lP, at Salt Ufca City, Utah; (3)
Vara Carloa Walkar*0, b., ?• Ttac. 1919, at Salt Laka City, Utah; ((*)
Orant Will Walkar*0, b. 1. June 1925, at alt «aka City, Utah.

(6) lton Walkar9, b. li* kov. 1*9<, Ha aarrlad and had, at laaat, ona
son naaad *ayna Walkar*0.

(7) Hlllla aalkar9, tain with Hlltor, b. LL» **k>». 1695. Sha aarrlad Henry

Patrick Pbllaa. Children, (1) Harold P*lk*a* ; (2) Donna Jana Pbllun*0
(6) Ethal Walkar9, b. 11 V. 1096; a. E; hrlan Pataraan and had four child*
ran, (1) Carl W. Patwraon*0, b. 19 A*ly 1915; (?) Paul Kphrla*
Pataraon*0, b. 1L Hay 1917; (3) Ronald Pataraon10, b. * Auy. 1919;

(1*) w-rald fO tar a on10, b. 76 Hay 19?f*.

(9) Edith Walkar9, b. 11 Wc. IP'*, twin with rthal; a. iy-aar W. Harlny
and had aawan children, (1) Ora Hardlny*0, b. 31 Jan. 1916; a.

Harman Lanca; (?) Doroa Hardlny*0, b. 2* Jana 1916; a, John Cowl ny-

ton; (3) Co nr. la Hardlny*0, b. 21 Fab. 1920; a. Junior Schwab; (L)

■ lllla* lyman Hardlny10, b. 20 'rec. 1921; a. A la na Hackall; (5) 'tot

Hardlny10, b. 6 apt. 192t; a. Ed Hclynni (6) Dol Hardlny10, b. 6

Sapt. I0?ti | (?) Janaa Laa Hardlny10, b. X *Wc. 1932 at Jarrere, Idaho.

(10) Earl Fan Walkar9, b. 6 Oct. 1901; a. Carr la Albarta Goodwin and had

Ch’. , (1) Earl Van Walkar Jr.10, b. |) Ort. 19?7; a. Joan Haurlna
• coll; (f) Hobart 'kan w, . ^ \ b. } Jana 19)0; (3) Una Aram

• • lkar*°, b. li* TWc. If)}*

(11) Pvarl Walkar9, b. 6 Oct. 1901; a. Aca Franrla Johnaon and had children;

(1) Coell Aca John* on*0, b. 2i* July 1«20; (2) Hawaii a. Johnaon*0,

b. 23 April 1922.

(9) Joooph Jatlah 7arWoy , b. >0 Auy. 1*60; a., ? .'ac. 1909^ burtrle# WlUlaaa
and had aowan children aa a ►car ba low. ha a. 2nd., 21* Oct. 192k, Hfrdnay
B allay ' w an.

(1) Jaddla Jcaaph 7ankoy9, b. and d., at Aahton, Idaho, 16 Dkc. 1909.

(?) bortha Ealhlaan FanHoy9, b., ?3 Oct. 1911; a., 17 Jan. 19?7, aallaoa
Hallldyy and had children, (1) bartha Hat 1 Ida Halil 'ay- °, b. 1 Aina
1929 at Aahton, Idaho; d. 1 Juna 1929| (?) WalLaeo Ward Halil l^10,
b. ?? Auy. 1930; (3) Bottlo Hart# Halil day*0, b. 10 Juna 193?| (I*)
Charl-a warn* Hallldyy*°, b. 10 Fab. 19X1,.

(3) Flola FanHoy9, b. ? Hay 1913, at Aahton, Idaho; d. 2* Fab. 19U.

(I*) Olan Clare noa FanHoy9, b. 2 July 1915; d. 31 Auy. 1916.

($) Wllllan C lyda FanHoy9, b., 12 'Wc . 1919, «t Aahton, Idaho*

(6) Thanla 1 7anHoy9, b. 26 Jan. 1922 at Aahton, Idaho; d. IP How. 1922.

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(10) Amelia VanNoy", b., 30 April 1871, at Richmond, Utah; d. young.

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(11) Samuel Tinsley VanNoy'', b. 1? Jan. 1873; d. 23 April 1933; m, Nora Fransen,

no children.

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Children of William Thomas VanNoy and his 2nd. wife Agnes Birrell, whom he
married, 25 Dec. 1859, when his first wife was still living and before plural
wives were outlawed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon),
were as follows;

(12) Mary VanNoy', b. 20 Dec. i860; d. U Jan. 1895; m., Nov. 1876, William Clegg.

He m. 2nd,, 26 April 1895, his deceased wife’s sister, Caroline Princetta
VanNoy', b. 18 May 1871; d. Ii May 19ltO. The children of Mary VanNoy® and
her husband, William Clegg, were;

(1) William Daniel Clegg9, b. 30 June 1879; m., 28 June 1906, Edna Cardon.

(2) John Edwin Clegg9, b. 2 Nov. 1880; d. 12 June 1931; m., 18 Feb. 1903,

Eveline Edora West and had children, (1) Jesse West Clegg^, b. lh
June 1903; m., 7 Oct, 1922, James William Isenhower; (2) Ruth Clegg^0,
o. 7 June 19Qb; m., 12 Nov. 1925, R^nnond F. Pierotte; (3) Arthur
Clegg^, b. 1 Aug. 1905; m., 15 Oct. 1938, Blanch Knott; (6) William
Chauncy Clegg^, b. Hr Oct. 1906; m., 28 March 1936, Ada Teter; (5)
Helma Clegg^, b. 9 Apr. 1908; d. 3 Nov. 1933; m. 1st., Edward Lee
Armstrong; m. 2nd., Donald Bridgeman; (6) Isabella Clegg^O, t>. 30
Nov. 1911; m. 1st., John Thom; m. 2nd, George Loebsack; (7) Kenneth
John Cleggl^, b., 12 Nov. 1909, at Downey, Idaho; (8) Mary Evelyn
Clegg-*-19, b. 21 Nov, 1913; m., 22 Dec. 1937, John L. Lytle Jr.; (9)
Phyllis Marie Clegg1^, b. 28 March 1916; m., 1st., Vernal J. Beck-
stead; m. 2nd., Albert Westwood; (10) Neal Edwin Clegg*-1-9, b. 17 Sept.
1917; m., 1st., Vedis Reloford; m., 2nd., Catherine Barbara Baird.

(3) Mary Agnes Clegg0, b, 31 Oct. 3881; d. 2h July 1917; m. William Fred¬

erick Sleight and had children, (1) William Daniel Sleight*-^9, b. Li
Jan, 190t» ; (2) Mary Evaline Sleight*-9, b. 3 April 1906; d. 3 June
1906; (3) Electa Eveline Sleight*-9, twin with Mary, b, 3 April 1906;
d. 3 June 1906; (li) Frederick Richard Sleight*-9, b. 26 April 1907;
m., 18 March 19U7, Edith Adel it; (5) Florence Sleight*-9, b. 12 March
1911; d. 26 April 1916.

(U) Harriett Clegg?, b. 15 Dec. 1882; d. h July 1928; m. James Russell.

(5) Henry Kilby Clegg0, b. 2k March 188U; m., 28 Feb. 1912, Rose May Harris.

(6) Joseph Clegg0, b. 29 March 1885; d. 8 Sept. 1933; m., 17 Dec. 1900,

Hannah Elsie Burrup and had one daughter, (1) Donna Darol Clegg , b.
11 Dec. 1911i; m,, 16 Jan. 1935, Stanley Emmett Evans.

(7) Bird Clegg^, b. 15 April 1886; d.Jan. 19^3; m., 7 April 1910, Eva

Nancy Criddle and had children, (1) Clifford Leon Clegg"'-'*, b. 31 May
1911; m. Bethel Martindale, b. 18 July 1916; (2) Arvilla Irene Clegg*-9,
b., 9 March 1911i, at Downey, Idaho; (3) Leona Clegg*-9, b. 20 March
1917; m. Keith winston Hayes; (U) Merl Criddle ClegglO, b, 2U Sept.
1921; (5) Bertha Luella Clegg*-9, b. 8 Jan. 1925*

(8) Frank Clegg9, b. 9 July 1887; d. 1 Dec. 1892.

(9) Arthur Clegg9, b. 23 March 1890; d. 22 Dec. 1890.

(10) Emma Marrie Clegg0, b. 6 July 1891; m., 29 Oct. 1908, Adalbert Malcom

Cavelry and had children, (1) Iva Marrie Caverly*-9, b. July 1909, at
Downey, Idaho; (2) Florence May Caverly*-9, b., 8 Sept. 1911, at
Portland, Michigan; m. Don DeLemarter; (3) Marion Viola Caverly*-9,
b. 25 Jan. 1915, at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

(11) Zilpha Clegg9, b. 11 Sept. 1892; d. 28 March 1922; m. Steven Richard

Sleight and had a daughter, (l) Zilpha Marie Sleight*-9, b. 26 March
1922 at Ovid, Utah; d. 25 Dec. 1928.

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(12) E»rl Clegg9, b. 26 Dec. 169<*; a. Sarah >inther.

(13) John 7enHoy", b. 17 Oct. 1863 at Rlch*>nd, Utah; d. U* Oct. 1666.

(16) Charlotte 7an*oy\ b. 16 Doc. IP66; d. 15 Kerch 1<>05, ■ ., ?6 fob. 16*0,
Abrahaa Potor Dario. 7h#7 hod ale run children n follows;

(1) "llllo- Abrohaa Dario , b. 8 Juno 1681) a. Hercete Li Me ay. Had chill -
ran, (1) Lo Kar (?) Glenda Orrti^, (3) iltunltr Doris13.

(?) kfft as C ho riot Vo Dot1»\ b. 13 J on. 1882, n. , Stewart Co^oo 11 and hod
children, (1) Soman S. Car;- be U 13 , t. 1 Sept. 1916, a. Thea Ellio-
both 7 hoot ha* ; (?) Ghlrlry Ho Ion Canpbell13, b. 2* Jon. 19?0( a.
Harold Scott.

(3) Janes LeRoy terlo9, b., 13 Aug. 1886, at Rlee Male, Idaho.

(li) Slocto K. Daria9, b. 2* Juno 1886, a., 8 Oct. 1909, Joooph A. Dolton,

and hod children, (1) fcrill Joseph Dolton13, b. 13 March lfU| a..

10 April 1963, ftulo Maxine 'el on/. Ho chi 1 Iron. (?) Lou ana Dalton ,
b. 2“ *l3r. 1912, *. Clarence l "ward Hewtlrk; (3) Leurlce teller.13,
b. 11 April 1916; *. vo '-opt. 1937, dayler will! era ^wle. (6)

Halror Stanton Dolton , b. 1* tec. 1915, a., 17 Jon. 19J,3, Charlotte
Malker; (5) Charles Million Dalton*3, b. and d. 21 Aug. 1 - 17 1 (6)
Doris “eltor.13, b. 8 Jon. 19?5, d. 6 Sept. 1«?5.

(5) Ada terle9, b. 2 5 Kay l*«*f, ? H*r. 1910, Heuel Johnson Alder.

Their chll-rer. were, (1) *»rre'.la Alder*3, t. 3 Jsno 19L3, 27

July 1935, Hilton Poil * orluo, (?) Lucie 1 A 1/lor13, b. 16 June 1911k
, 17 July 19<3,, Jane a .one, (3) OMJ Oeri» Alter13, t.

Hor. 1«1*; a., < Hor. 1910, A/ tor aorthen, (6) Howard terte Alder*3,
b. 1) April 10 17, a., ? Hor. I960, both PTgrlllo Po«rr Ifll V ••

Aldor13, b. 26 Oct. 1918, d. ?7 Oct. 1918, (6) both Alder13, b. 27
J>ert. 1919, d. 13 Oct. 1919, (7) Meurlce Alder13, b. 7 Ai*. 1^21, a. ,
23 * MT. 191*6, Harold 1. billet (8) Ilem Alder10, b. 2 Horeh 19?3l
o. ei Lford Air in testel (9) Ado Alter13, b. ?5 Hot 1921*, a., 1 Aug.

.6, Hobart Char lee |M0| .7) Pool Dor*. • vlder . . Dec. 19?5|

d. 15 Sept. 1927.

(6) Ceoilla Daria**, t. 11 April 1890; a., 1 June 1907, Robert Hilton

Cajacob Grant. Their children were, 1 1) Cleo Fore at Grant13, b. 20
April 1906, in Uninn Co., Oregon, (2) Jason -mill* Orenl*3, b., ?w
Oct. 1910, at »yooe, Ore for; a. teuton •. Mole, ()) Mllllaa Jack eon
Ormrt13, t. and d. > J an. 1912, (I,) Iphrlan Thonas Grant13, b. and
d. 3 J«». 1912, twin with Ml 1 1 Ion.

(7) Hoeea TanHoy Darla', b. 19 tec. 189?, o. Ella K*e Monahan. They had

one eon (1) Edward Darla.

(8) Harold VanH<$r Derle9, b. 23 April 1*96; o., let., Ira Irene Conner,

a. ^»d., Grace tenard; }r«. Cma ieorpe j a. 6th I rol rwa Murdoch.

*0 children by third wife. Children by first wife, (1) Melrln
Harold terlo10, b. 18 Jar. 19 16 j 0., lat., Luclle Geeodor'

7enlce tel mar; (?) Mllllaa Arnold tests13, t. 8 Oct. 191*, d. 7 Hor,
1918; (3) Milford Cudoll 'aria13, b. 31 Jely 1°17; a., let., Ifflia
Glade Hill; a., 2nd., Marla Luisa HwIai (4) Bert Darla13, b. and
d. 8 April 19 IP , (*) Howar4 7anHr»y tests13, b. * p^p. 1020; a., 11
H>r. 1961, I re re Hooker.

The children of Harold Tar, Hoy aria9 and hie 2nd. wife were, one
eon (6) Robert Van toy Iaria:\ r., ?« Jar. 1'3;7, et la r;

a. ?5 Auc. 19^0 Alice Joy Johnson.

The children of Hamid 7anKoy Dar.e and hia iith wife vil , one
eon (7) Kent Mir dock Dario13, b., 2? June 191,0 at Salt tee City,
Utah.

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(9) Leslie Davis^, b., 2b April 1896, at Parker, Idaho, He did not marry,

(10) Nathan Vernon Davis^, b, July 1898; m. Eupha Horsley and has one son

Van Barton Davis10.

(11) Eveline V, Davis?, b., 22 M^r 1910, at Plano, Idaho, She died young,

(15) Thomas Lorenzo VanNoy~, b, 1* May 1886; d, Nov, 1929; m. Martha T, Vail,

Their children were;

(1) Thomas Lorenzo VanNoy Jr,^, b, 23 Oct, 1887; m. , 10 June 1910, Ethel

IXiston, No children,

(2) Bertha Tyresha VanNoy*5, b, 28 July 1889; m., 23 June 1909, Orville

Rawson Child and had children, (1) Orville Ruel Child10, b, 6 May

1910; m., Hi March 193b, Florence Staker; (2) Delsa Druzilla Child10,
b, 11 Dec, 1911; m., 25 June 1938, Harvey Lee Brock; (3) Florence
Zelnora Child10, b, 6 May 191ii; m. , 21 Sept. 1932, Cyrus C, Anderson;
(b) Thomas VanNqy Child10, b. 6 Sept. 1016; m. 1st., 10 Feb. 1938,
Inez Sessions; m. , 2nd., Josephine Stoker; ( 5) Rawson Dewey Child10,
b. lb Nov. 1919; m., 30 March 19bl, Joyce Poulter; (6) Glen Vear
Child10, b. 20 Nov. 1922; m. , lb July 19bl, Lorraine Erickson; (7)
Lloyd B. Child10, b. 23 Jan. 1927; m., 7 Feb. 19b7, Katherine
Vandenburg.

(3) Florence Edna Van?ioy , b. 18 Feb. 1891; m., 1st., Joseph Franklin

Roberts; m., 2nd., William Hanni. Children by first marriage were;

(1) Mary V, Roberts10, b. 1 Feb. 191b; m., 16 June 1936, M. Theron
Wolfley; (2) Martha V, Roberts10, twin with Mary, b. 1 Feb.
191b; m., lb June 1933, Raoul Call; (3) Franklin V. Roberts10,

b. 29 April 1916; m., 1st., 30 July 1938, Marion Josepha

Clinger; m., 2nd., 6 April 19b6, Marjorie Marie Taylor; (b)
Doris V. Roberts10, b. 18 March 1918; m. , 3 June 19b6, George
A. Taylor; (5) Matthew VanNoy Roberts10, b. 30 March 1919} m.,
1st., 29 Nov. 19bb, Barbara Staker; m., 2nd,, Christine Hookum
VanNoy, his aunt by marriage; (6) Rhea V. Roberts10, b. 10
April 1921; m., 21 Sept. 19b0, O'Neil Miles; (7) Griffith V.
Roberts10, b. lb Oct. 1926; m., 1 Aug. 19b8, ElDora Joyce Lee.
(b) Agnes LaVema VanNoy*5, b. 2 Sept. 1892; m. , 1st., Rulond Osmond; m.

2nd., J. W. Nevman; m., 3rd., Clarence Hoopes. Children ty first

marriage were three as follows; (1) Rulon VanNoy Osmond10, b. 22
June 191b; m., 29 Sept. 1937, Norma Kennington; (2) Ralph J. Osmond10,
b. 2 Nov. 1915; m. Lydia Tullis; (3) George Virl Osmond10, b. 30 Oct,
1917; m., 1 Dec. 19bb, Olive May Davis.

Children of \gnes La Verna VanNoy and her second husband ;(b) Polly
Neyman10, b, and d. July 1921; (5) Peg^r Neyman, twin with Polly, b.
and d, July 1921; (6) LaVeme Neyman10, b, and d. Dec. 1922; (7)

VaVina Neyman10, b. and d. Dec. 1922; (8) LaVenna Neyman10, triplet
with LaVerne and LaVina, b. and d. Dec. 1922; (9) John V, Neyman10,
b. and d. May 1923; (10) Cora Bell Neyman10, b. 5 Aug. 1925; m. , 15
May 19b5, Harold Edgar Womack.

(5) Nellie Zelnora VanNoy?, b. 13 Jan. 189b; m., 8 Oct. 1913, Benjamin
Marriner Barrus. They had children as follows; (1) Mabel Zelnora
8arrus10, b. 22 Sept, 191b; m. Richard John Millward; (2) Benjamin
Floyd Barrus10, b. 7 March 1916; m,, 11 Aug. 1939, Carol Brown; (3)
Emery VanNoy Barrus10, b. 13 Dec. 1919; m., 19 July 19b5, Mary Helen
Cattaneo; (b) Martha Audra Barrus10, b. 7 Jan. 1923; m., b Sept,

19b3, Billy Lue Williamson; (5) Margarette Lila Barrus10, b. 9 Dec.
1925; m., 27 Oct. 1936, Raymond Franklin Cheney; (6) Naunie Darline
Barrus10, b. 16 May 1^30; m., 21 Nov. 1951, Brigham Delworth Gardiner.

(6) Ora E leads '?*n'tojC) , b. 27 April 1899; a., Jan. 1918. Cyrus Kathanial

Ttaun. They ha-! L) Cyrus Asa Yaanan , i. 10 Jan. 1918|

a. , 12 April 19U, Eathar Hoswt; (2) Clao ▼ an Roy Taanan10, t. 27 March
1919; d., 19 Oct. 19J9, In Braill; ( 3) Ora Eva Nmui10, b. 27 March
1919; a., L Fab. 191,1, 'haman Andareon; (L) Eraljm Taanan^, b. and
d. 1 Fab. 1928 j (9) Dorothy Jaa n T^anar10, b. 20 Oet. 19J1, d. 10
fc». 1931.

(7) John Tall VanRoy9, b. 16 Aur. 1097; March 1920, ftith Oosaatt. Thay

had childran, (1> Malar Rowans 7anRay^\ b. 1* ifev. 19?0; a., 10 i
19?'. rh Msaar; (2) ^ith 71rlana TarRoy'0, b. 10 5a; . a.,

Juna 191,6, jarald F. >.aaplon; ()) Je*r Richard TanRoy^, b. • For.
1927j a., 12 Aif. 191,* , tobarta Flawing.

(8) lattla FanJkry0, b. 1* Mar 1*9*; ?0 Aug. 19 U*.

(9) Will la* Avon TarRey**, b. 17 May 1*">1; u., 31 Aof. 1927, Rsroasss Mils.

Thay had childran, (1) Lloy * iron TanRey*®, b. 22 lab. 19?k ; 5

July 191,7, Jaan -rvr. ••aln; (?) 'aar. T. TanR^r13, b. 6 April 1^29 j a.,
26 July 1990, Mary Louisa Colson; ()) LaRsta 7. tan^-jy10, b. 29 March
19V; »c. IV. croon Jr.; (L) ali.ltr -shall Wmtkj^9

b. 10 Jar.. 19>8i (*) Lmna terms »» VarHoy^-, 1. 20 Oct. 19U,

(10) Janas ~aar TanRoy9, t. 19 apt. 190? ; 1st., nrtru -t» lop j a.,

2nd., fclva Biggin.

(11) Atrahan Lateant YanRoy9, b. 16 Rev, 190) | a. , 21 Aur . Sira Coy.

Thay had children, f 1) Mri Ian TanRcy*0, b. 21 Jar. 19?3l •»., 23
9*pt. 1990, Has Ins Rith Hoaar; (?) Rsulah Vanloy^, b. 18 April 19?L;

a. , 21 Sort. 191,6, Olen teyls »oo; ()) Raymond tenont fanAoy*0,

b. 7 Mov, 1976; B.| 11 Aim 1%6 Marprat Juddi (L) Ratty Maa VRnB^lO,

b. 21 Sapt. I9?t, a. Thosuk' - lan 91s Jr. ; (9) 5* »rol

MflO, N 11 April 1936| (6) Donne R aa T«Jby10. . . tee. 19U,

(7) Willin' Janas t^KoylO, b. ?J j 10fc6.

(12) CUranca Illby ?«tft>y9. t. ?< May 1906; d. 7 tee. 1990; a., 26 hug.

19)3, Christina Hootrua she married, aa ha r eormw) has Land, bar
najhrw Matthew Tanfcy *atart*^, >ll4nr. of Claranea Illty Tally
wars , rtM? Rn I May10, b. 26 A-*#. 1« Rls | (?) FatrlrU

7anMny b. 12 apt. 1936; (3) Barters TanRny^, b. 9 March 1939;

(fe) Lor an Var.iky10, b. 11 Aug. 19(,?.

(13) telpha Rrl ncatta farRoy*, b. 21 te<. 1909; ?f Aur. 1926, Fiiyd

Iryran. Th^r had children, (1) Rsnaa Maria Ir*ran*°, b. 1 April
192*; (?> Twoma Ingres^, b. 19 March 1930; n.. 9 Wpt. 191,9,

Marshal J. Haonur.

(1m) laaae Devon 7ar*yr *, b. 20 tee. 1910; a., 31 Ally 1934s. Levon E'gren.
They had childran, (1) Lsten fanlky *°, b. 23 April 1939; (2)
la raid E. 7ar»fc-yl6, fc. 10 tee. 1938; (3) Carol Ja an fanfeytt, b. 7
Aug. 19ii0; U) Lama E. VanRyW^ b# 9 Hv (5) j0lana TanMc^ l0,

b. 1 Juna 1990.

(19) Martha VanRay9, t. 6 Aug. 1919; a., 10 art. 1937, Howard Met la. Thay
had chlldrar, (1) J.rry Vanfcy McEin10, b. 13 March 19M0; (2) Ronald
Loranao Mefln^®, t. 2) Jan. 19j,3; (3) %>bart Mirhsal t. 10

Jan. 19C6; (I,) Jmmu Mtaiar-4 MeEin^, b. 9 Feb. 1991 j («.) Martha Am
Me* in10, b. 7 May 1993.

(16) Janas Edward ▼anfay*, b. 11 Roe. I267t d. 76 M^ 1096.

(17) Evelina V«iMoy^, b. (1 Aina i860; a., 29 July 1887, at Mink Crsak, Franklin

County, Idaho, Mrrrla Roaanbaun, b. , 30 July 1067, at Rrighaa City, Utah.
Thai r childran w»ra|

388

(1) ffyrtle Rosenbaum9, b , 30 April 1888; m. 7 June 1907, Earl Zundell, b#,

27 Aug, 1B86, at Washakie, Utah, Family lived at LeGrande, Oregon,
They had children, (1) Irvin DeLora Zundell10, b, 19 March 1908; m.,

27 April 1927, Leona McClellan; (2) Stanley La Van Zundell10, b, 26
Sept, 1912; m., 16 March 1936, Mona Katherine Hansen; (3) Earl Holt
Zundell10, b. 27 May 1915; d, 15 Sept. 1916; (1*) Eleanor Zundell10,
b. 9 Feb. 1918; (5) David Keith Zundell10, b. 11 Nov. 1920; (6) Ruth
Ellice ZundelllO, b, 5 June 1926; ra. Farris B. Zougg.

(2) William Morris Rosenbaum9, b. 1* May 1890; d. 5 May 1890.

(3) Thomas Lorenzo Rosenbaum0, twin with William, b. !* May 1890; d. 5 May

IB 90.

(li) Jesse Rosenbaum9, b. 3 June 1892; m. Nellie Kennedy. There was a son
named Merrill Rosenbaum10 who enlisted in the Navy in World War II
and was killed aboard his ship.

(5) Alice Rosenbaum9, b. and d. UU May 189U.

(6) Pearl Rosenbaum9, b. 8 Aug. 1896; m., 31 July 1912, Saxon Bruce. They

had children, all b. at LeGrande, Oregon, (1) Evelyn Bruce10, b, 9
Nov. 1913; ». Robert John Rogers; (2) Saxon James Bruce10, b. 12 Oct.
1917; m. Elizabeth Nolton; (3) Morris VanNoy Bruce10, b. 28 June 1921;
ra. Lois Marre Young; (1*) Von Ceile Bruce10, b. 12 Dec. 1922; ra., 30
Jan. 191*8, Donald H. Shelly.

(7) Earle Rosenbaum9, twin with Pearl, b. 8 Aug. IB96; m., 22 Oct. 1916,

Ethel Fuller. They had one daughter, Helena Mae Rosenbaum10, b. 17
Oct. 1917; m., 27 Dec. 1936, Carrol Mitchell.

(8) James VanNoy Rosenbaum9, b., 6 July 1898, at Ovid, Idaho; m, Merc ides

Dray. They had no children.

(9) Everett Kilby Rosenbaum9, b. 10 May 1901; m. Irene Shafey. They had

children, (l) Jean Lucille Rosenbaum10, b. 3 Sept. 1921*; ra. Robert
Hess Weisgerber; (2) Sue Irene Rosenbaum10, b. 31 March 193®; (3)
Ronald Everett Rosenbaum10, b. 29 May 191*5.

(18) Caroline Princetta VanNoy®, b. 18 May 1871; d. *4 May 191*0; m., 26 April

1995, her brother-in-law, William Clegg whose first wife was her sister
Mary. They had two children as follows: (1) James Irving Clegg9, b. 27
Feb. 1900; d. 10 April 1930; m. Grace Russell. They had no children; (2)
Zelnora Lorain Clegg0, b. 28 Oct. 1901*; m., 8 May 1930, Bernard Isenhower.

(19) Nathan Kilby VanNoy , b. 21 Feb. 1873; m., 1 Jan. 1911, Pauline Jensine
Pedersine. Their children were;

(1) Spencer E. VanNoy9, b. 11 June 1913*

(2) William Thomas VanNoy9, b. 12 Aug. 1917; m., 7 May 1950, Roehn Shaffer.

They had children, (1) Stacia Paa line VanNoy10, b. 19 April 1951;

(2) William Thomas VanNoy Jr.10, b. 13 April 1952.

(3) Katherine Elaine VanNoy9, b. 8 Dec, 1919; d. 1* March 1920.

(1*) Pauline DeLaine VanNoy9, b. 16 March 1920; m. 1st., Dee Hunter; m. 2nd.,
George Willis Coombs. Children by first marriage, (1) Delmne
Hunter10, b. 30 Oct. 1939; (2) Ron zjy Keith Hunter10, b. 21 June 191*7.
Children by 2nd. marriage, (3) George Nathan Coombs10, b., 23 June
19l*7 ; (1*) Katherine Elaine Coombs10, b. 30 Oct. 1950.

(5) Nathan Kilby VanNoy Jr.° b. 8 Aug, 1921*; killed in action, World War II,

17 Oct. 191*3. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

(6) Betty Jean VanNoy9, b. 20 March 1928; m., Brandt R. Layne. They had

children, (1) Michael Brandt Lane10, b. 17 Sept. 191*6; (2) Ted Russ
Layne10, b. 19 Aug. 19l*9.

(20) Agnes VanNoy®,

b, 1 April 1875; ra. , 1st.,

15 Sept. 1892, Michael Norenberg

y*9

Kathleen, ■. , ?nd., ii June H09f Kartlmt He Is on. Children by first »»r-

rla|> were,

(1) Ajp>ee Jenelt Kathleen9, b. ?3 Oct. 1*93, d. 5 The. if 96.

(2) Wlllla* Hilton Kathleen9, b. ?9 H*y 1?9S| a., IS June 19?3, Florence

DUEtta Bo map. They had children, (1) Wllllaa 'ear Kathleen10, b.

?< April 19?S, a., ?3 Jo m 1946, Karllyn Lmiee Powell, (?) Earl
V^an* Kathleen10, b. ? April 193<.

(3) Albert Harley Kathleen9, b. 1< Oct. l£*9» a., 3 Bo*. H?6, Elisabeth

Ki tchel. They had children, (1) Wllllaa Fltchsl Kathleen10, b. 31
Aug. 1977, a. Barbara Jane "oore ; (?) Frances tpwi Kathleen10, t.

?1 Feb. H??.

(4) Enett Janes Kathleen9, b. < Feb. IKS | a. felne Crlteer. Bo children.
Chlldien by ?nd. aarri a#e were)

(5) Caleert TarJkjy via lean9, b. ?6 April H10, a., IS Jan. 1937, Jennie

Ardella Johnaon. They had ana eon named Taleert :•« Wieleen10, b.

IB loe. 1937 1 a. HeJLlne OUswnport.

(6) Eeelyn tlaleenc, b. ? Oct. 191?| a., 4 June 1930, ealter jordon

Hendry . They had ehlHren, (1) Herald Jordan H»n*ry*3, b. ?7 Oct.
19)? | a., ?3 !•*. . Sharon lee Diopter, (?) Richard Arle Hendry10

b., 19 K^ 193S| a., 9 Sept. HSS, Kar caret Harwell Foe tar.

(7) Orandon T*rJkjy Rlelaen9, b. ? Xly 1*13) d. ?0 Dec . 1947| a. Virginia

lee who a. ?nd. , tf l-if lay • They had cMldren, (1) Orandon Lae
Helleen10, b. ?6 April 19)4| (?) Pearson Lee Vlelaen10, b. 16 Jane
H )S , (J) Karan lie lean10, b. ?6 but. H36, (4) Larry l*e H»le*r13,
b. 4 Jan. 1930| d. 6 loe. H<0, (r) Donald Lee tleLaea10, b. 13 ?eb.
19)9, (6) Lome J«w tleleoa10, b. 30 Oct. H41, *. U Ort. 1941,

(7) Kerb Lee Hainan10, b. IB June 1944.

(0) Myrtle Vlelaen9, b. 9 April 191S| a.f 30 Auf. 19)4, "Ilford Janes

Hofere. Thy had children, (1) Kenneth Burene Harare10, b. 10 'he,
19t7, (t) Moana Jean Hogs re10, b. 1? Oct. 1«U, M> "aaela Ho tern10,
b. ?l Oct. H46, (4) Jeeon Vaidfey hogere10, b. ? Hoe. H^*.

( 71 ) Wllllaa Hvaphrey TanHoy^, b. 1 Kay 1B77| a., IS Jan. 1907, Anna Katllda
Chris 11 mean. Their CM Id ran were,

(1) Anne Kary fanBoy9, b. ?4 'ac. 1914, a., S Bee. 1937, Barold Joseph

Taylor. They had children, (1) Do* (lee .‘anas Taylor10, b. 1 Je ly
1939, (?) WlUlae Tv.Boy T^lo r10, t. 6 Kerch Hi.:, ()) Cl art Harold
T^ lor10, b. )1 Kay 1U9, (4) Joeeph Walter Taylor10, b. Jl She. 1951

(2) Katherine Afnee Vanfey10, b. 12 Oct. HIT, a. Aatre C. Jewell. They

have a daughter, (1) Linda K. Jewell10, b. ?9 June 1*43.

(22) Xelnore FanBoy*, b. 21 Feb. H79, a., let., IS Jane 1B96, Joeeph Qloen, b.

IB Dec. If 71 1 d. 13 Kerch 1901. She married ?nd., April ?, HOI, har
f 1 ret Hifbard'i half blether, Orwcn l^nie Olsen, b. 0 Ally Iff?. She
presently lives et 10S E. South Twple St., Salt Lefee City, Utah. Thl a
writer la Indebted to her for noet of the Information concern inf her
father'e and * rand father' a fanlllee herein ehradcled.

Children by flret aarrl aye |

(1) Wllllaa Carlyle Oleen9, fc. 77 April lf99, a., 12 H»«. H?4. Fbarie

Kadeen. Their children are, (1) BllUe Virginia Oleea10, b. ?1 J an.
19?6, a. 11 Jane 194? , l hrerd lerrard Jentlne, They prweently bars
foar cMlIrer, fa) Jer.nlfar Jentlne11, b. 1? tert. HiH, b) .'stale a
Jentlne11, b. ?9 July HS1, (c) Jerrylyti Jeidrtiw11, b. ?1 Sept. 19%
Honolulu , H. I., (d) Wllllaa Edward Jentlrw11, b. ?< July H<7;

(?) John K. Kadeen Oleen10, b. 3 f*e. 19?f, (3) Carlyle tlliabeth
Oleen10, b. 1 Feb, 19JS, n. ? Oct. 19S6, Hobert Fhlllp Korrle.

390

(2) Agnes Burgetta Olsen9, b. 20 May 1901; m. , 29 Feb. 1928, Frank Melvin

Christensen. Their children are, (1) Shirley 0. Christensen10, b,

27 June 1929; m., 23 Jan. 1953, Samuel Boyack and presently have a
daughter, (a) Jan Boyack11, b. 28 March 1951*. (2) Zan Christensen10,

b. 21 June 1935; m., 12 Nov. 1951, Grant D. Clegg and presently have
two children, (a) Peter Melvin Clegg11, b, 8 Sept. 1955 and (b) Paula
Dawn CleggH, b. 22 Oct. 1956; (3) Glayd Melvin Christensen10, b. 17
Sept. 1936; m. Helen Ann Mickelson; (1*) Wynn Barrie Christensen10,
b. 1* Sept. 191*0.

Children by 2nd. marriage are;

(3) Jamie Olsen9, b. 7 Sept. 1910; m., 1st., Glen Cheirrett; m,, 2nd., 30

June 1938, William George Stalder. There presently is one child,

(1) Jacqueline Cheirrett,10 No children by second marriage.

(1*) James Olsen0, b, 7 Sept. 1910; m. , 2 Aug. 1935, Isabel Jeanette Parker.
Their children are (1) James Gary Olsen10, b. 28 June 1936; (2)

David Kenneth Olsen110, b. 12 July 1939; (3) Bonnie Lee Olsen10, b.

10 Nov, 191*5; (1*) Charles Ray Olsen10, b. 12 Feb. 19l*9; (5) Michael
Orson Olsen10, b. 9 Sept. 1953.

(5) Emma Olsen9, b. 9 Aug. 1913; m., 1st., Russel G. Bruce and m. 2nd.,

Glen Eck. Children by 1st husband, (1) Robert Orson Bruce10, b, 2l*
Dec. 1931*} m., lb Jan. 1956, Carol Hopkins; (2) Joelene Bruce10, b.

25 Dec. 1938.

(6) Joseph Heber Olsen9, b. 3 Dec. 1915; m., 12 July 19b 1. Maxine Marie

Hill. Their children are, (1) Joseph Brent Olsen10, b. 11 March
1913; (2) JoAnn Olsen10, b. 11 March 1917; (3) Craig Olsen10, b, 2
Sept. 1919; (1) Noralyn Olsen10, b. 25 Sept, 1951.

(7) Evelyn Lenora Olsen9, b. 8 Feb. 1917; d. 10 Aug. 1920.

7

Children of William Thomas VanNoy and his third wife, Katherine Josephine
Bagley, bom 11 Sept. 1870, whom he married 3 February 1892, after the death of
his first and second wives. She m, 2nd,, after her husband’s death, Elijah
Spackman and by him had three children, (1) Laurerma Spackman, b. 11 May 1901;

(2) Henry E. Spackman, b. 23 July 1906 and (3) Acel Spackman.

(23) William Ray VanNoy®, b, 17 March 1892; m., 1st., 16 March 1916, Coral
Christensen; m. 2nd., Elsie Hogan. Children by first marriage were;

(1) Fawn VanNoy9, b. 29 Dec. 1917; m. Michael Koenig.

(2) Spencer VanNoy9, b. 26 July 1919; m., 5 May 1951, Rosella Pocheco.

They have a son, (1) Stephen Spencer VanNoy10, b. 3 Feb. 1952,

(3) Lynn C. VanNoy9, b. 13 Jan. 1921,

(1) Colleen Coral VanNoy9, b. 22 Jan. 1927; m., 5 April 1951, Thaddeus
Max Evans.

Children by 2nd. marriage;

(5) Delano VanNoy9, b. 17 Dec. 1937.

g

(21*) Martha Lauretta VanNoy , b. 27 Dec, I89U ; m. Julius Dee Ralph Shepard.

Their children were;

(1) Golds Afton Shepard9, b. 6 March 1911*; m., Oct. 191*0, D. H. Hatchings.

(2) Della Shepard9, b. 23 M^y 1916; m. , 2 Oct. 1938, Clarence Glen Todd.

They have children, (1) Qlen S. Todd10, b. 8 Aug. 19l*l; (2) David
Lynn Todd10, b. 23 June 19l»3 ; (3) Robert Todd10, b, 6 April 19l*7;

(1*) Mary Annette Todd10, b. 29 April 191*9.

(3) Thelma Shepard9, b. 11 April 1918; m., 28 Oct. 1935, L. R. Eskelson,

They have children, (1) Loma Jean Eskelson10, b. 15 June 1936; (2)
Shirl Dee Eskelson10, b. 19 Aug. 191*0; (3) Richard Van Eskelson10,
b. 2 July 19l*l*,

yn

(li) Jullu* 0. Shopard Jr,9, b. ?7 Fab. 19?0, a., ) July 19)7, QorU

Bartlett. Thay har* a daughter, (1) Linda Am Shapard^3, b. 71 *o».
1%0.

(?5) I.th.rln* TanHojr®, b. 13 April 1096j ?6 March 1910, Harbart C. Chrlatan-

••n. Thay had child rani

(1) Hart>arl C. Chrlatanaan Jr.9, b. 71 March 1«19, a. tenia Hathaw^.

Thay haw ehlldrar., (1) lad Ban ton Only Chrlatanaan*', b. 1? Fab.
19Ji^| (?) Satan lynr Chrlatanaan15, (3) te»ld Volt Ohrlatanaan13,

(?) Ewlyn Raa Chrlatanaan9. b. 7* Sapt. 19?? j a. 1. 1th L. Snart.

(3) P»ciy Joyca Chrlatar.aar i , b. ?7 May 19?L; a. Raymond Thorn a ■ritton.
Thay hart child ran. (1) Chrlatlar C. irfMtton10, b. U Ajg. 19^1,

(?) Catty Whit ton ^ b. IS Jan, 19S5.

(li) Katharlna Chrlatanaan , b. 71 Hay 19?6; a, Fay 5 ha mar Robiaon. Thay
haw child ran. (1) Linda lay Ibblaon*5, b. lit apt. 19..9, (?) Thoaaa
Jaw a teblaon*0, b. 71 Ranch 19S?, ()) Lwrla Pmm Iteblaon^, b. 9
fe». 199..

(?6) lattla TaJby , b. 1 Jan. 1099, a., 31 Sac. 1919, Fart In tannan Kayaa.

Thalr children warn,

(1) Hi Us LaTon Nayaa9, b. 71 Oct. 19JO, a.( 5 Au«. *939, trim Nurias.

Thay haw chlltran, (1) 9 harm naan Faiaraon*5, b. 70 March l'-^l
(?) teth laylaan Fatar.an*3, b. ? "•«, 194*1, (3) Jarald Winn Nur»

• on10, b. ?1 Jam l«U,i (l> teal* John Fataraon10. b. ?0 te|. »L
(S3 Roaa Mary Nur*»^, b. ?? April 19LF.

(?) Char la* V Ryaa9, b. ?1 Harr h 197? j a. Francaa Fwvlina. Thay haw
chlldran, (1) Charlaa Fay Jr,1®, b. 71 Sopt. 19fc), (?)

Staphanla b. 6 V. 19Q.

(3) Batty Jaan May..9, b. 3 A-ay. 194.3, ... 10 Rag. 1939, John Wa.lay

Coltrln. Ttey ha*a chll4wn, (1) laiU ‘awn Coltrtni0, b. 3 JalF
19(i0, (?) Ctrtw Coltrtn*0, b. 7 Jam 194,3, (3) Jawi lynr * '.tria1®,
b. 17 May 19C1, (R) Jar. Ira Laa Coltrln13, b. U. Aug. 19Q.

(t) Fa rt In lonmn Maya.9, b. ?0 U(, 1931, , 19S), Marla Nonaan. Thay

haw * ' • *#*• | • r, HImMI V hyM^®, b. 1) May 19 9. .

(S) John TarJtry Raya.9, b. 7U Jum 19R0.

(?7) Mary Baglay, ralaad by th. fanlly, b. U. April 109-3, «. Arul Bright. Ttwy
had chlldran, (1) C*. Atalda Fright, b. 1? Aag. 1979, *# iaorga F. Boyd,
(?) hn*l Arlal Bright, b. S Fab. 1911, *, tdlth Flcorai (3) *atla Bright,
b. ?S Dm. 191), (ti) telay IdM Bright, b, 30 Jan. 191R, a, Aaron 0. Jam.,
(S) Aaron H*nry Bright, b. 7 tec. 19)4,, a. Lillian

392

THE McNIEL FAMILY

Intermarried with Eller Family XII, p, 177.

The McNiel family claims descent from one of the noblest clans of Scotland,
which traces its ancestry without interruption through a long dynasty of Irish
kings to Niall of the Nine Hostages who ascended the Throne of Ireland in the
year 379 A.D. Before that, according to Irish chroniclers, the line runs back to
Niall of Scythia and beyond him to Fenius the Antiquarian, son of Boath, son of
Magog, son of Japhet, son of Noah, No more interesting treatise of any family
exists than that entitled, "The Clan Macneil" by The Macneil of Barra, chief of
the clan, published, 1923, by the Caledonian Publishing Compary, It tells a
fanciful story of how one Niall of Scythia was invited into Egypt by Pharoah
Cingcris and of the great work he accomplished in regulating the flow of the Nile
River, which was named for him. He married Princess Scota, the Pharoah' s daugh¬
ter who rescued Moses from the bullrushes, and by her had a son, Gaedhal, or Gael,
after whom the race was named.

The first Nacneil of Barra settled on the island of that name off the west
coast of Scotland about 1050 A.D. From him is descended the Highland Scottish
Clan Macneil, than which none prouder existed in all Scotland, The Clan Macneil
Association of America has been formed to perpetuate interest in the family, all
members of which claim descent from Scottish progenitors of common ancestry.

Between the years 1735 and 1770, one or more McNeil (McNeil, McNeill)
families emigrated to North Carolina and settled on the Cape Fear River, Others
came and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, whilst others settled as
far north as New England. The emigrant ancestor of the family herein chronicled
was the Rev. George McNiel who came to North Carolina about 1750, later moving to
Grayson Co., Virginia and then back to North Carolina. Tradition says that he
was bom near Glasgow, Scotland where his daughter Mary also was bom. This would
imply that he came with this child and its mother but this is to be doubted because
his grandson, George W. McNiel, wrote in 1898 that his grandfather came into the
state of Virginia with his brothers John and Thomas and there married a Miss Coats,
(ut infra) The writer has a document signed by him in 179l» in which he spelled
his name McNiel, a spelling favored by subsequent early generations of the family.
Later descendants, however, spelled the name McNeil and McNeill and in one case
McNeel. In this record the writer will use the ancestral spelling except in cases
where he definitely knows that a different spelling was or is used.

George McNiel, according to tradition, was educated in the Presbyterian
ministry in Scotland but soon after his arrival in America came under the influ¬
ence of William and Joseph Murpfry, John Osno and Andrew Baker, all pioneer Baptist
ministers, and was ordained in the Baptist faith prior to 1776. His reason for
switching his alligiance from the Presbyterian to the Baptist Church is said to
have came from a feeling that the change would enable him to reach more people
with his ministry. He marched with the forces of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland which,
on 7 October 1780, fought at the famous battle of King's Mountain, and served as
their chaplain. (N, C. State Records, Vol. 18, p. 288.) He was one of the
organizers of the Yadkin Baptist Association in 1786 and served as its moderator
for mary years. His home in Wilkes Co., N. C, was on the North Fork of Lewis
Fork Creek that flows into the Yadkin River west of Wilkesboro,

In the month of August 190L, the Brushy Mountain Baptist Association of North¬
west North Carolina which covered territory once a part of the Yadkin Association,
adopted the following resolution concerning the Reverend George McNiel,

"Whereas the Story Hill Baptist Meeting House where we are now assembled
is located in the inanediate vicinity of the former home and church of our
departed pioneer brother and father in Israel, Elder George McNeil, and where¬
as no suitable monument has ever been erected to his memory, therefore be it

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As solved, That a ccswilttee of tiro ba appointed by this Assoc 1 at lan out
of respect to his memory, Ka departed this Ufa June 7, 1005* And ba It
furthar

Resolved, That tha eoeedttee have this work dona. If posalbla , by tha 7th
day of June 1905, and that tha day ba obeereed by those «d>o wish to attand
as a nano rial day with such ral 1 clous services at his grave as said eomdttaa
may doom co^atlble with tha eauaa of that 3rsat 5 hap hard of tha shaap - our
Lord Js«uk Christ.

Vo suggest that descendants of Eldar MeMell compose tha commutes , lnrlud*
Inc the nanaa of b rath ran Hilton Mclell, I rwlr McM»U, Oil war McMsil and
brathran J. M. Illar and Oac. W. Welch.

(Signed' W. R. Illar,

J. S. F»fuar,*

Tha lntant of tha resolution was carrlod out on 7 .'vna 1905 whan a naaaorlal
aarrlca was hold at tha grev* of Raw. worn McMlel In tha fanlly canatary In
■ likes County, I. C. 1 oca tad an tha oast bonk of tha Morth fork of Lewie Fork
Crsak Ji»t bafora that crook croaaas tha road that runs f ran Fur lours to Furs ana -
villa and lylnc on tha north a Ido of that rood. On 76 Oetobar 1*05, a granite
memorial obollak waa arse tod board r* t to following inscription! *fldar >arp

hr *• 111 waa bom in Olaegow, Scotland In or about tha ysar 1770 and departed
thla Ufa Atna 7, 1005. waa ana of the i»aptlel Fraac ha rs and organisers of
tha W. TaAln and lator tb Mountain Malrtct apt lot Aoeaclatlon and waa a
patriot! o eltlaon and companion of tie loo rl ear iny in tho war of tha
Merolullan. Caaualttoa J. M. Illar, V, Welch, -rl ng Ftfell), w: .,.om

Me ha 111.*

Tha speaker on tie ocraa Ion waa tha tewrsid William "ail lion Illar. (Saa
Ella r Fully III I ha rain. ) Ma waa a frost, fra at grardaon of %», Oaorga MrRlal,
and a Baptist minister of fra at ability ad prominence in norths* at Morth
Carolina. A memorial bock lot of 17 pages. all* P*por »»r, waa printed In 1*05
by tho eonnlltaa authorl sod In tha above roaolatlon, to record tho sddrass of Mr.
Illar sr. * othor papers conrerrtng tha Ufa an-* tlnas of Mar. MrVial. Thla b©<* lot
was distributed to tho various Artist Associations In Morth Caroling to oortaln
Ubrarlos and historical associations , to descendants of Mas. Me Via 1 aivi to
frlsnds of tha fanlly. Cha copy la In its posao salon of this wrltor,

Mr. Illar spoka as foUowai

•In oreordanca with tha resolution of its trusty Mountain Association
providing l ha rs for tha Committee of irrvgwwnis has mmde It ay prlvllogs to
address you st this place whore repos# tha worts 1 remains of our anrsstor.

Ms an to red into his rest ana hundred years afo today, an old oan and full of
years , and his sons burled hln in this mountain field across Its stream from
which ha had his hams whan tie country was now and vtm re ha had for sous
years passed his days , whan not upon his itinerant gospel missions. This
piece of ground waa his also and dedicated to bee cam and remain tha resting
pl see cf tha daad until by the will of Ood tha trjnpsl shall sound and tha
ll sd in Christ shall arts*.

•Tha oldest place of warn ecrlpt In which ws find any written account of
tha subject of this tmnrlal Is without data. It Is slgnsd by his son
Joseph Me Mel 1 , and was fouiv* among tha papers loft by Mss. Jawi Y annoy (who
was bom Juno 77, 17*7, end died February l*, 1057). It was probably written
for hare diet's Mislory of tha Hartlste. Joseph McMsll, as moasory has marked
him, was boro In tha yaar 1757 an*4 Used to 1F5«. ws remember him aa a man
of advanced afu and dserepltuds In UQ. Mis statement with reference to hla

father reads as follows:

’The Rev. Mr. George McNeil was bomd on or about the year 1720 and
was ordained some time before the year 1776, but the exact time I cannot
tel, and he was frecruently a Corresponding Messenger to different Associa¬
tions, frequently appointed a help to churches whose difficulties arose
in them, and was called to ordain preachers, and constitute churches, and
was Moderator of the Yadkin Association for a number of years, and he and
the Reverend Mr. John Cleveland went in the Revolutionary war with the
army as they went to King’s Mountain and preached to them until they got
up into Burke County. Him and the Rev'd Mr. A. Baker yoused to preach a
great deal together. He departed this life June the 7th, 1805. This is
as correct an account as I am able to give.

(Signed) Joseph McNiel.'

"Mr. Joseph McNeil was the father of the late Rev, James MeNeil and the
grandfather of Rev. Milton McNeil, and has many descendents living who can
identify his signiture.

"Tradition reputes Elder McNeil to have been a native of Glasgow, Scot¬
land, where his daughter Mary was born, and that he was a Presbyterian at
first and was educated for the gospel ministry in that denomination before
he came to America. However, there is no record of him in the Minutes of
its Synods. It is only possible that he is referred to as a Presbyterian
minister in the sketch of the Mossingford Baptists in Semple’s old history
as the Presbyterian who sat in the same pulpit with Mr. Williams, a Baptist
preacher. If so, this identifies him very closely with the Sandy Creek
movement. Mossingford was a branch of one of the Sancfcr Creek churches,
possibly Dan River or County Line, until its organization in 1785. Mr.
Williams was a Particular Baptist.

"Elder McNeil was, in the earlier days of his ministry, identified with
William and Joseph Murphy. The last named brother survived him by several
years. He was also familiar with Shubal Stearns, the pioneer organizer of
the Sandy Creek Association, and attended upon his ministry prior to his own
ordination. He was a comtemporary also with Rev. John Gano, whom he knew
and with whom he was in accord in points of doctrine and practice.

"The two Murphys labored in the same direction taken by Elder McNeil, and
sketches of their work are of material interest in this Memorial for the
reason that McNeil was the pioneer and always in advance of the Murphys and
always held all the ground he gained on the eneny.

"Joseph Murphy was converted under the ministry of Shubal Stearns about
the year 1758 and was baptized at Deep River. There were then and afterward
several arms or temporary places of worship, and as Deep River was a branch
of the Haw River church, we located it near the home the McNeils of Moore
county.

"Joseph Murphy’s pastorate at first was the Little River, now known as
Forks of Little River in Montgomery county, in the direction of the McNeils;
and William Murphy’s first pastorate was at the Dan River church which became
extinct about 1771, and out of which the old County Line church was organized
afterward. This was in the neighborhood of Elder McNeil's second home, as
we trace him by tradition. Joseph Murphy's church at Little River had four
branches, according to Edwards, who visited it in 1772. One near Little
River, another on Rocky River, another on Jones Creek, another on Mountain
Creek, in each of which there was a meeting house. Joseph Mirphy and wife,
Richard Curtis and wife, John Lee and wife and Susan Carr, were its first
or constituent members, and it was organized about 1760 and increased from
eight souls to five hundred in about three years time. Edwards says that
they were 'reduced low in 1772 oy reason of the removal of families to other

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parts, chi* fly occasions^ by apprehension* which a**m*d to than remediless
slnca tha battla of Alamance. 7h* first Mnister was H»», Jon*; h “ -irr+7 • '

"Joseph's wlfa was a Hal *7 . Joaaph was accused by Um vile Col. fanning,
of aiding and abettlig th* regulators. Whereof says Edwards, 'he was as
clear as ary nan whats sever' 1

•From Little River Joseph Nurpty ran owed to Shallow fords. The church
there was so called flow one of the fords of the T a * 1 n , 'near to which the
nesting house stents in the county of Sony. The sinister ( 1777) is Rev.
Joseph Hurpfy who has to his assistance Messrs. avid Allen, John Cates,

David Chapmoi. Tha f sallies, about J50, whereof 135 pereona are baptised
and in communion which is here celebrated the fourth Lord's Day in the north.
They began partly by •alprart artists who car* hither fnm other ctorctoe,
partly by the renalne of Hr. *ano* 1 church la Jersey settlement and partly
by the labor of Hr. Joseph P arpfy, who tiled several. Thee# to the mnber
of thirty-two were, in 176#, conet l tiled into a distinct Church and Joined
the >a nry Creek Association.' - Edwards. (Ibid)

"Joseph durr^r exasperated wr. >ralfe, the hector of t. Luke's Parish
In the County of Rowen into writing to Jovemor Tryon on hay 76th, 1770, on
the state of the country on the 7a«kin as foil awe 1 'The Separate Ane-neptlete
Joined than, ferply, who talk* away, ee dicing the people even in direct
apposition in nary points to the 'tseenter* principles eas receleed into the
Court House as in caswatnlon with thee an 1 great countenance given Me. ' The
to gu latere were then organlslm and this was also written soon after the
organisation at Shallow Fords and enable# aa to understand the prosperity of
the bap tl ata in t hi a direction. Edwards aey • of lit 'The Ctoreh consists of
three branctoe, one near tha ford, where is a place of worship >0 feet by 76,
built In 176#, arot*er in t f» Fork of the Atkin and enottor at Mulberry
Fields. This church, with its branches, grew from thirty-two in 176# to ona
hundred »d e ighty-fl v» in 1777 and list eery near to tiw Jersey curch on
the east, Stone on the west and to«p Creek, the hone of Joseph Hurpiy, now
In the limits of T eke In County. Farther to l hr west ley the H. 1 berry Fields,
the location of which la so familiar - Wilk*eboro. The briar Creek branch
was tha Mcfell c torch hoae for about tan years, probably longer. In point of
tine. The records tove never been shown ue. Foote ' e History gives its
organisation as of August 10, 17*), and yet to gives ee ns naeaee. Se do not
think he tod ary record bef ve him at the time to pre-prepared his address.

Ha names the Clevelands, the town, the 71 1 Li ame , the Alaneee, the Martins,
and tha Allens, tot dose not refer to the Hefei Is, at w**ww home at this ties
there was a branch of the Brier Creek Ctoreh.

"to v, Andrew baker was the first pastor of the Frier Creek Ctoreh, and
was also tha or* wilier of the Lewis Fork Ctoreh, wMch grew out of this am.
brother McSlamery says that the house first built wee located on a branch
called Judd's C reek , aftemerde Sal very's Creek, about one mile above * tanVon
F, 0., built by the neighbors for brother fotoil to preach in.

"We will take up the William ferpty thread wvd felloe it from Deep River,
where ha was brought to tha light of i he *oep»l with hie brother Joseph.

This am of the Haw River ctoreh connected these workers with points far
away, and line than Davie with tha feirpfy •, hat hard* 1 Powe 1, Dmry Sims, and
James Steward formed an aggressive leadership Into dletant parts. The am*
of H*w Riser were this *wep River church, Rocky River, Tick Creek, and
Caraway - as ntch as fifty ml lea to the westward and Dan River far toward
the north on the Virginia Una. William Muryly found his first work in the
Dan Riser flail from about 1761 to 1763# when he took charge of a ctorrh at
Ho Is ton.

"We must amplify the brief sketch of Edwards here. Mo Is tan *u Hole tan
at the f^re Valley on tha head water* of the tola ton River, with wMch we

connect Stanton River, heart of Roanoke and another branch of which no name
is given. He was ordained in this field in 1763 and Semple states that his
labors were mostly performed in Southwestern Virginia, He is a central
figure in the regions of the old Strawberry Association, of which the Yadkin
churches were members from its beginning in 1776 to the organisation of the
Yadkin Association as a corresponding body, in 1786, and a distinct body in
1790. This Dan River Church was the subject of an emigration about the
middle of May 1771, like Sandy Creek, Little River and Jersey c nu re he s -
suffered, as we learn from Semple's Virginia Association - Minutes of its
first session,

"Elder McNeil was no doubt a sympathizer with the Regulators and like
many others took his departure to the Virginia colony on the triumph of the
British arms, or possibly sooner. This led him to Caswell in the vicinity
of the Dan River or old County Line, and from there to the head of Roanoke
and the Holston field, whence he also traveled with Cleveland and Baker,
again falling in with the Little River and the Deep River migrations. His
travels and labors were extensive. Of his work in his early ministry the
accounts are meagre. The memoranda has long since gone with old papers to
return no more and mind and memory have also failed. He baptized Henry Hand
in Surry county, N, C., October 23rd, 1783* and this brother became a preach¬
er of strong gifts In the state of Georgia afterward and the ancestor of sons
in the ministry who were men of great usefulness, (See Campbells History.)

"A man's works follow him and live after his day is past and gone. Good
foundations, therefore, commend themselves to us to be of utmost importance.
In order to see the foundations laid by this good man we must give a few
sketches from the history of the Yadkin Association, when it first began its
work,

"The entry begins as follows: "A branch of the Virginia Association met
at Petty's Meeting House, Surry County, N. C., October 13, 1786. After
divine service proceeded to choose Rev. John Cleveland Moderator and John
Wright Clerk, Letters from eleven churches were read and recorded," Quer¬
ies were discussed, sermons were preached, and the fcxisiness transacted for¬
warded to the Virginia Association for ratification.

"In 1787 the Association met at Bennett's old meeting house. Rev. George
McNeil was the moderator and Richard Allen was the clerk; and in the year
1788 the same offices were elected and the resolutions of the Dover Associa¬
tion of Virginia were adopted - by which the Separate Baptists and the
Regulars became one bo<y .

"In 1789 the Association met at Brier Creek Church and elected the same
officers,

"In 1790 the Yadkin Association became a distinct body. This session was
held at Eaton's Meeting House, August 28, 29 and 30 of that year. Rev,

Andrew Baker preached the introductory sermon from I Cor, 1:30, 'But of him
are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption,'

"Elder George McNeil was chosen Moderator and Stephen Wood Clerk, Four¬
teen churches were represented: Two in Rowan, eight in Wilkes, one- in
Iredell, one in Burke, one in Virginia (the Rye Valley, which must have been
the home of Elder McNeil in Grayson County),

"The Association was Missionary and Bro. McNeil was one of the three who
were chosen 'to travel on in the name of the Association' and to support
whom it was ordered that there be an Associational Fund prepared and for this
purpose appointed brother Barlow, brother Martin and brother Eaton as col¬
lectors of the same, and that brother Wood be trustee for that purpose. This
was before William Carey stirred the world with his missionary sermons in

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17??, r lrlr* Jt his motto, now on »wry standard, 'Uu<r*. frost things for
Qod, axpect frost tMiyi fro* jod,' using for his tost Isa. *2* i?-l.

•Ths %t, John Oano was s missionary of ths FtiilsislpH* Is sortition aer.t
fomar! to Charleston In 1755 to shout 17?®, and wss aitel ty ths funds of
ths Vhlledslphla Association and resoinsrsted for Ms wort ty ths Charleston
Association who ssnt hi* to tho 7 *% in Wm country. Hit labors wsrs great¬
ly bis st owlnf to his prsctlcsl turn of mind, reay wit and cosnon sens*.

HLs Hsmolrs, s snail, old eoluas, Just rood, hanfs in ons hani as I writs
with tbs otl\*r, wlshlnf. If posslbls, to ldsntlfy ths frlsnrl of our ooian
snows tor an* labors r, tofsthsr with Kls In ths tiding tl*sa of ths Arerlean
hgTol.it ion. Aftsr ths war was orsr both swr., . o had Mrwi In ths rapacity
of volunteer chaplains, ast on Dutchman's CresS, In **rls County. alto ' s
ho* was than in lw ba dry . Ur Us i 1 sas ths JWtrttor of ths Ta-%ln Associa¬
tion, than in saasion at talon's. Xl was ths lsttsr part of 1Tb),

and thsrs was opposition to ths to 1st of ’beona, ths C ons ti tat ion prowl tint
for a Nourtler. Ur. ~««r o aaysi 'X UilUt an Assoc iati tr • M la hsrs an'
found nary difficulties among than. Ths 1 *sa of hawlr* a Wodsrator was con¬
st do r»d as dlshonorinr Christ. Their rsowilliu llbsrty of ths U-»*srator
for swwrythinf which thsy wished to do was emal dared too mnfomat Is to ths
custom* of wrldly s*e«»fcll*e a r ‘ ar inf r*. of ►rlstlar libsrtlss.

But aftsr a*fh sits real ton on thsss points IKsy agreed to than and ths
Association was oor'vUI with awrh w»rs,'

•II Ur jsro was a younger nan than tl'sr UrU.il - born July ??, 1777, anl
dlsd of paralysis Anr-tsl V), 1*0L. An s^r's slslt with thsss sainted nsn
would rwfrwah an* aid «soh to ths st>H of '.nforuatlor. g »*. *w re 1 for ths
occasion to tay .

•Ths fun* for which prorlsion was na Is at ths nest inf In 1790 rsairdt us
of ths method# of ths Cha r Lost an Association, which was cop lad in its bogln-
nln< from ths fhlLsdelgMe. Ths prowl si ons of ths C wlasion for a fund
began In ITW for 1U evocation of its pastors. This (an ths ainistry of
South Carolina Its (ml advwilap, using a bojy of educated m>n fra ths
beginning. This was omitted by Us * ar.> Crash, which, whlls It has fur-
nlshsd a nu ill tods of slnsi nan «d sducatsd, yut ths Soulhsm Baptist
Theological Seminary did not arias f ra Its nils! nor fr « its sarly method*,
although Ups farwat aftsrwarta did at its ussuiy at Rims' CKejei, 19)?.
Ths difficulties of 17?) nay account far ths psrsons 1 difficulty bstwwan
Joseph HurpTy and tlisr Ur U. ll, a statewenl of s*dch has boon hands! as by
Bro. J, *. Lwwsllyn, now h>Ur»lor of tha **rry Assariatlon, ard, which
glmn la full, rwads as followsi

'Thar Sir and ' rothsr i - X rsealwwd your fawor th othsr lay, us haws
a copy of l he Tahir Assoc La t Ion aim las from its organisation In fact
whila it was an am of ths Virginia Association up to and lnr hiding ths
yaar 1*17. As to %», Qsorgs Uhl 1 X can only say that hs was nodsrstor
of tha Tadkin Association fror ths Use It was or fan 1 sad as a branrh of
ths Virginia Association In 17*6 till about 1*36. I ham not ths sliutsi
new bsfors as, 1 espt far two years, It sswas that HcVU ur»l '»*,

Mirrdgr had a misunderstanding and sach ons with'mw from ths Association
and tha record doss not aha* that Hu»r*y a»ar did return but Uclsll only
rwaal ns d «t two or three ysars, X as* not poslllm which, and cwss tart
to ths Association n' was ms is- ts 1 moderator. hs was praminsrtt in its
proceedings as long as X find anything of hla, often preaching on Sunday
*nd prsachlng ths Introductory mpmu. Ths sarly slntUs w*m »sry short
anl gave but little thst was dons. And this is all you couLt lsam fr>*s
than a Unit brethsr UcUsil, X will, when X get thsss minutes again, glws
7«e ary th l rg thst X hare omitted. I be 1 1st* you are clerh of the fled,
•ant Association, ss organised a new Association in this county this year

known as the Surry Association, I am its moderator.

Tour brother,

J. R, Levellyn.'

"The general strength of the Baptists, According to Asplund's register
in the year 1790, North Carolina had ninety-four organized Baptist Churches,
seventy-seven ordained preachers, seventy-one licentiates and a total member¬
ship of seven thousand five hundred and three, and the grand total in all the
states amounted to only sixty-five thousand two hundred and thirty -three
members and seven hundred ministers,

"The Circular Letter of the Yadkin Association in 1790 reads as follows:

'Dearly Beloved,

'Being assembled together in the fear of the Lord we thought it ex¬
pedient to write unto you certifying that we have received a very agree¬
able account from the different quarters of our District Association
especially when the brethren came to testify by their gifts that you
walked in the truth, they being f aithfUl.both to brethren and strangers.
Seeing that the Lord hath afforded you the gracious visitations of his
divine favors by sending forth his servants, crying at the gates of the
city, even at the coming in at the door, thereby figuring out the glo rious
dispensation under which you live,'

•Brethren remeaber the wonderful displays of divine power amongst you
and rejoice when you hear the voice of the turtle sounding in our land.
Gird on the whole armor of God, March in order at the sound of the
trumpet, be continually on the watch guard and see that you fall not by
the way, believing always that He that is your Advance Quard has promised
that he will lead captive your enemies and put them under an eternal
arrest. Therefore beloved march forward in the powerful influence of His
Holy Spirit, strive to love and serve Him in this world and finally to
enjoy Him in the world to come, and as we have been favored with much
harmony in our deliberations we trust that the Lord hath enabled us to
act for the welfare of Zion. Whilst we bid you farewell in the Lord, be
ye faithful. Be ye of one mind and the God of love and grace be with you
all - Amen,

•Signed by order of the Association,

GEORGE Me NEIL, Moderator.

STEPHEN WOOD, Clerk.'

"This sweet spirit made the Yadkin Association a power in the mountain
districts. There are now about twenty-two Baptist Associations instead of
the one up to the year 1799.

"The Lewis Fork Baptist Church in its origin and Articles of Faith throws
additional light on the life, faith, character and influence of our ancestor,
and which we deem suitable as a Memorial to its old servant and faithful
pastor,

"The Lewis Fork Baptist Church was organized from members from the Brier
Creek Church on May 19, 1792, and its Minute Book is full from its beginning.
Elder Andrew Baker was its first Moderator and Abijah Fairchild, its Clerk,

In 1793 brother McNeil was its Moderator, May 3» 179l», Samiel Castle,
Jonathan Tompkins, and twenty -two others were organized into an independent
church and adopted the Seven Articles of Faith aa follows:

'1. We believe in God the Father, creator of all things visible and
invisible, and in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of Qod, the Mediator of
the New Covenant and in the Holy Ghost; and that these three are one God,

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co-oouil, c?-4U mil , the saws in iubtUw«, powr and glory.

'?. W# Mlltn ths Scriptural of ths Old and Hew 7*sl*n*nts to bo the
Word of God and t ha an)/ Hil# of Faith agv4 Practice, and that iho only way
of salvation Is oy th» lacuted righteousness of Jaeue applied to ths soul
by ths Spirit of God without argrth Lng In as or dons by us as mrllorljws
to our salvation.

'3. da belle** ths *Jty v# awe to God Is to adhere to ths Scripturos

and oonply with ths eosaiva and duty ths rain, as baptlsn and laying-on

of hands and ths Lori's Supper, keeping ths Sabbath and attending an
public and private worship of God and church westings, especially on
Saturday aore than ary other seating.

'L. we believe the -*uty ve owe to oar fawlly Is to pray with and for
than worrlng and atoning and to set such eaangles before then end our
neighbor* so nay be for iod'a glory and their good.

'5. We bsltss that aanct If 1 cation la a sort of God's Spirit carried

on in the soul e>‘ will not be finished till the soul and bo>$r are 41a*

united and that all tnw believers In Jesus Christ shall pwr*e*ere in
grace a*v* never fall so as to tw lost.

'6. ris balls si In the resurrection of the bo*y, both of the >it and
un4uit, an4 there Is s 'ey In which God will Jn'ge ths world by that sen
Christ Jesus. »n* that the righteous will be received into eternal glcry
and that the wicked will be aert Into eternal punlsheer.t and that through
the endless ages of eternity.

*7. We believe it to be our tty to souneel, r.lsh »n‘ reprove one
another an4 not to espoo* one another to ary in the erwreh or out of It
till It Is brmght before the church agreeably to the word of od. '

The eesber* at the adoption of these article* are sot neesei. Wa gather
that the following msi were its Leading werhvrei George Uriel 1. tbljah
Fairchlli. Sewl Castle. V l herds 1 Triwy and Jonathar Towpalne.

•l»v. in're* laser wee the pastor of this new dart so Long as It was a
branch of the brier Creek, but upon Its f Inal or gar nation titer %fell was
its pastor and and* rat or. titer *c*ell preached for It f roe ths beglnrlng
and before ary slope were taken lower'4 an organisation, and was wots re tor of
sow* of Its sMtlrgi for business. The casts Illation, however, prepared was
proposed by brother laker.

•In 1795 1 rot her .'awe* Chanbors was nswl by the Claire h as Its eholcs for
pastor, but he did not serve the toy that year, and brother He Sell was call¬
ed to asms then another year.

•Ik 1796 Brother IfcCaleb eas rowed to becoew pastor an 1 vial ted the
ehirch. but did not long centime with It. The rtorch at this tine was
see tiered over ths are* covered by the treaty Moan tain. Stogy Fort sW Hue
Udg* chare he • and ths advanced age and great labor* of its pioneer lender
caused hla to earnestly wish s successor Ww could feed the whole flock, bet
brother NcCaleb was toon absent | possibly the wounValn stream often Inter¬
vened and probably range • of wunUlra them# lev*. W* are not able to locate
his house. There **r* wary cases of discipline and for earn year* the aim be
book la ledar with Its trials.

•In Jane, 1*G0, the church again called Brother MoCaleb at*4 v* ewepecl
that he was not now acceptable to brother hrVU hlweelf. Ms wad* 4 action
or put forth a ouery to the Church desiring to know whether there was
'scriptural authority for laying hands on # very baptist aan or ho.'

•brother HcCalsb was pastor of the church durlry the year 1AOO. brother
■alhaalal Trnoy we* wore aetlmly engaged than ever heretofore, belry tok¬
ened wuch by the revival tide that swept f row the Ohio river to IW coasts

of the Atlantic ocean. He was delegate to every meeting of the Association
for sixteen years in succession, beginning this year.

"At this time Andrew Vannoy, who was a young and gifted school teacher
and son of Nathaniel Vannoy, near neighbor to Elder McNeil, became clerk of
the church and there is shown an improvement in the methods of minute keep¬
ing, and a great compary of people now annually Joined themselves to the
church.

"Brother McNeil continued to act as committeeman in difficult matters and
never failed to get them adjusted until the time of his death, of which re¬
cords make no mention. It is probable that he transferred his membership to
Old Fields church, which was organized in the house of his son William, only
a few miles to the west of his home and that at the time of his death his
membership was there. Old Field Chirch was organized January 1st, 1803, by
Elders Andrew Baker and James Parsons. The first named was brother-in-law
of Elder Nathaniel Vannoy.

"It appears that the tide of emigration which followed the year 1815,
affected the state of religion and there was again a failure to make great
progress. Elder Thos. Prof fit, one of the constituent members was ordained
in 1823* Elder Smith Ferguson moved near in 1827 and became pastor and
teacher. William Church was converted in 1829 and soon became a preacher
and teacher. In 1836 the Lewis Fork Association was organized and fran this
point gained we close. Our work is done. We have only attempted to get at
the foundation facts of the mission of our ancestor who was one of the work¬
men of God in the beginnings of His gospel in the Tadkin and old Mountain
District country. We leave much unsaid because we know so little."

Here ended the discourse Dy the Rev. Mr. Eller except that as an ending Mr.
Eller read a six stanza poem that had been read at the grave of Rev. John Gano
who died 10 August I8QI1.

The memorial booklet also contains the following note by Mr. Eller on the
flight of the Baptists after the battle of Regulators at Alamance in May of 1771.

"It is well known that the Baptists fled fromtheir homes and churches
ijrmediately after the day was lost at Alamance May 16, 1771. An attempt was
made to get Joseph Murphy by Col. Fanning. Rev. William Washington, the
pastor at Tar River, was prosecuted in North Carolina courts for saying in
Virginia that churchmen were fools, and lost liO pounds (currency) at Enfield,
and Rev. Samuel Harris was imprisoned at Hillsboro for visiting the prisoners
and praying with them, while many took the course of Herman Husband and went
into Virginia. In other instances whole communities were depopulated by the
migration that ensued to the head waters of the Tadkin, across to the Watauga,
Holston and New River country, and even into Kentucky, led by such brave men
as the Boones, Calaways, Gen. James Robertson, Tidance Lane, and in large
part the churches of the San^*y Creek Association and the authorities are
replete with this information, especially Winsor*s ’Western Movement'."

The following Important letter written in 1898 by George W. McNiel Sr.^, son
of Thomas McNiel^ and grandson of Rev. George McNiel^ was published in the me¬
morial booklet above referred to. It helps to name and identify descendants of
Rev. McNiel,

Maple Springs, Wilkes Co., N. C., May 28, 1898.

'Mr. W. H. Eller,

'Dear Cousin and Friends - With respect to you I will answer your kind
letter of June 25, 1896, hoping that you will excuse ay neglect of not
answering sooner.

'I will gladly give you all the information concerning the McNeils in

MU

WiLkas that I m abla . H)r grundf a'.har, ware* Hefell, c mm f ran Scotland
an! hla two brct-hara, John and Thrum, a loo cm froa Scot Land. 7“h*y loft
thair natlM land, looking bock with Iowa a a lone M th*y could a** a croon
loaf, on account of thair religious f raadon. (Korea Hefell, ay frmndf athar,
can* Into t ha 5 tat* of T 1 rgl nla and nurrlad a Ml** Coata, and aa tha country
aattlod op, bo Inc • Baptlat minister by rrofaaalon, waa eallad far to oon-
atltnto SaptLat march* a and to attond aa pastor of Baptist ehurchss. Ha
cans into Ir^rson County, !i(, af tar which ha cant Into Wllkwa County, I. C. ,
and cooatltotod and attandad cferrh** h*ru. 4a alt* triad nora or loaa
church** down tha Yadkin tlwar. Ha waa pastor of a church noar tha hood of
tha Ta/ftrln floor. Ha lind in Wilkes County In about taro and ona-taalf ullaa
of Haw Hop* ehareh on tha north fork of Lowl • ' Fork Craok. Ha waa aftor-
warda ruglstrur of daoda of tfllkao County (thla waa about tha data of ISO?).
Hla a on, Million Nclall, woLintoomd In tha oar of Haro lntl on, and hla • an,
Jaeoph Hclail, aal J ha would wolunteor and go with dllllaat, but ha waa not
old enough. Qaorfo Hefell and olfa lived naar th* fam of loo. Hanry Iwndar-
nan, lata dac*u*l; frea this union ala a ana and two dauchtaro waro raLaod,
ola. I John, who aarrlad a Cl* *• Land and who Il*od naar Oraanwllla, 3. C.,
whora Col. BanJ. Cl* vw Land, if* faro of King'* Mountain. ll*wd) unci*.
Million Hr kill, aowod to th* Slat* of Town***** , CUyboro Qo.| unci*,

Jan** He Ha 11, aattlod la Utm County, but oowod to fedl*'a Hlvwr In Mllkoa
and marrdad a Waa Slop hard • Ihwy rulaod ala am and thru* doughtorsi unci*
Jam opt Hrfeil Head an th* hon*a taad of hla fathar and oarrlod a HI* a Ml La an
and thoy rulaod thru* a ana and thru* da.gntar*. Tha low. Jan** HcH* ll, hla
aooond aon, waa wall known by hla f rlanda a* a hap 1 1*1 mini* tar, 11 wiry naar
Ho raw tun Falla, ■. C., at th* 11** of hla daath, and wua a faithful wvl
rappaeiod praaohor of groat «£4liy . Y>» aldoot aon of Jam, He Ha 11, tolng

nond Larkin, aarrlad a Fargo* act and rulaod thro* aon* r*n* 1 rwapwetlvuly,
Franklin, John and Milton) Franklin balng a aolllar of LMl. Tha haw.

Milton Hri.il, and family aru wall known In tha county af Milfea*. Rjr anrl*,
BanJ. HcHall living an South Lowl a Fork, throw ullaa from aid L#wl* Fork
hartlat C Kirch, narrlad a Hla* Up* and r* 1 a* 1 aavun aon* and on* daughter,
all anlm waat but Enoch Hefei l, Ho 4 tod mar Horawlan Fall* In th* y*ur
of IBM or 1M6.

fathar, Tho* . Ncfeil, narrt*d a W*a Fkraono, taitg a dm g* ter of
Haw. Jana* Furoono, of Surry Coan^r, llwing on few Hnr, roar tha Old Fla Ida
la la ha County, and wua a aoldUr in tfw war of 1017. Ha 1* bo rod aa a
Baptist Hlnlstor In A aha and Milk** CounUaa.

vTm at* tod that you wantod aa to |ln Inf aru* t lan about arty nlnlatnru
lining at that Una. X will flu tha rvanaa <* few. Tfiiuai Ftufflt and few.
Bui th Farguaan, who won »rj f rlanda.

' RF fathar, Tho* . Hefell. and i aottar rulaod thro* • atm aid thru*
doughtwr*. Tha oldait balng nanod Jana* uni being roar fifty joara of »f*.
who dlad near Salisbury In U» aarwlca of th* Soul ham luUa on Fab. IB,
10$$. Tlo second aon, Jaaa* Hefell, dlad fra typhoid fawur at hia fathar'*
houa on l»Ui Lowl a Fork on tfw lata of Jana 0, 13)0, balng naar t aunty yuara
of I* th* yningaat. Ry fathar, Tho*. Hrfeil, ll*od to th* grwat agu

of wl g hty - thru# yuara. Ha dlad Soptanhur 0, IBM, fe had two aiataru toot
yot aantlonad in thla artlels. Thair nwasa warai B Uiatolh wvd Holly ru#p*c»
tlwuly. Illaaboth aarrlad Bobt. Blnghan, of tha 9 tat* of Virginia, b*lng a
fewoltotiomry aoldlar and llwing ©nr* naar Hall'* 3 tor*. Story Rill. Thwy
r»la*d thro* ton* nanad raspaeUvuly Ml 111 an. Joal an4 oorg«| loo. George
Blnghan, of Watauga County, rulaod flaw am, on* of who*. Ha'. Marwwy tlng-
han, wall known by nary f rlanda, want to th* Sonata of Horth Carolina in
1*76. Hr, Tho*. Plnghan, havirg nary f rlanda , rupruaantad Watauga County

three times in Legislature of North Carolina. Esq. John Bingham and Dr.
Philmore Bingham are known by many friends. My aunt, Polly McNeil, married,
Mr. Henry Miller, a son of Uncle William Miller, who was a soldier of the
Revolutionary war, and lived on the farm where Mr. F. D. Hall now lives on
the south fork of Lewis Fork Creek. They raised two daughters, one married
a Parks, the other a Lankford. Mr. Harry Miller lived on a farm in Caldwell
County on the Yadkin River, moving from there to the State of Illinois;

Uncle Henry Miller's grandaughter wrote to me giving her name as Mrs. Clarisa
Rebecca Parks. My uncle, James McNeil, raised his family on Redie's River,
having six sons and three daughters, the oldest named Larkin; others were
John, George, William, Oliver and Eli. Fanny, married Capt. Simeon Eller,
Rebecca, married the Rev, John V annoy, a Baptist minister well known in
Wilkes and Ashe; the younger sister being Nancy and married Edward J* Dancy,
who lived in the town of Wilkesboro about the date of 181*0.

'I further state that I was acquainted with Esq. John McNeil, Jr. He
lived in Overton County, Tenn. He visited North Carolina about the date of
131*0. His grandfather was uncle James McNeil, Sr. His widowed mother was a
Miss Vannoy. He has or had four brothers, viz.: John, Jesse, Neil and James.
The Rev. John V annoy, a Baptist minister who married Miss Rebecca McNeil,
lived in Ashe County on Beaver Creek. He was pastor of the old Baptist
church at Beaver Creek many years. They had many friends as far as they
were known , and raised quite a large family of children, four sons and four
daughters, viz.: Jesse, William, James and Wiley, Mary, Louisa, Tilda. Mr.
James Eller, of Wilkes County, married Louisa and Henry Hardin married Miss
Tilda. The latter naned moved to Colorado. Mr. Jesse Vannoy was in the
late war of the '60's and died there. So I will not write ary more. I have
given the most important history according to ny knowledge of the McNeils in
Wilkes.

'With my best wishes I will now close. Your friend and cousin,

0. W. McNeil, Sr.'

Inserted in the memorial booklet also, is the following table to show the
growth of the ancient Ya4cin Baptist Association founded by Rev. McNiel in 1786.

"The following Table of Associations now occupy the territory covered by
the old Yadkin Association frcn 1786 to 1799. We give the dates organized,
number of churches and total membership. We have omitted Grayson County,

Associations .

Organ¬

ized.

Ch'ches.

Mem¬

bership.

Remarks.

Alexander

18 —

19

2798

Alleghary and Grayson

1886

12

501

Ashe

1897

28

1571*

Brier Creek

1821

28

318U

Brushy Mountain

1872

21

1878

Blue Ridge

1888

8

203

Caldwell County

1873

29

2316

Elkin

1903

10

950

Liberty

1932

26

2383

In part.

Pilot Mountain

• • • •

1*9

1*909

In part.

Mountain Union

1866

22

1250

Mountain District

1799

• •

• • • •

Primitive

Fisher's River

• • • •

• •

• • • •

Primitive

Primitive

• • • •

• •

• • • •

Primitive

(Cont'd. )

403

Organ-

Mem- "

iMoclatlo— .

tied.

Ch'ctoa.

be r* hip.

ton art* .

1T5TTT

Mooring Ml— r

161*6

• •

• • • n

Frlnlti — .

South Yadkin

• n o •

35

3706

State H— main

• • • n

16

610

Story Fort

1*66

16

1167

Surry

1603

7?

U7«

Three Fork*

1%0

33

3100

Yadkin

1766

76

763°

31*336

Tto i*vur of 3oo nr* «. nctol 1, wnior, ate— a—wn •oui 1 in'tc«u that la*
grandfather talrnud f lr*t Into Hrftnl*, Uur flnUAf hi* »*y into Bom
Ctrollm. It 1* kMM th*t h* AV to Into Mr< UU il • — ry • * rly nu for to
»u Identified with tto Son Xj Crook he**— nt *nd mU kt *m to t to preacher* who
w* r* **nt ti mlsaiooarle* into lower FlrglnU ty '—et-*l .tun*, partlruUrly tto
Murphy Brother* im John to— with wheat to wo* oentenperery. Haw* — r, *11 r*«H*
•nd tradition* —•« to In he at* that ho firot (ww to Bom Coro lino totwoon 17k5
onrl 1 7*0 or 1 l*tor —ttUd in Moor* Cn.rty With hln row hi* hrottoro Threw*
mA John. If ter orrtval to nan-led hi** Goal*, who any to** boon hi* —cam wl/*(
by A<a to ho) *1* am «r d throw d— (Mere. A* ca— , ft would *rt«*r, — *
Fre*tyter ion pro oc tor, hot tell* nr* ttot to e-lf roach Uo people hotter through
tto hop t lot C torch hoc— — of tto l r ieor In Uut direction, —Itched to that
do non motion and Jol—d tho c torch oho at tto tl— of tto to (winter* no— nt 1a
1771. No Joined tto toft Inter*, and after tto bottl* of iLanance fled for safety
Into Vlrflnl* wtor* to lived for a tl— in ir* jraon County. Fran tto Utter place
to ooeod Into WlUoi County, — ttllry pe rwa—m ly in tto Toftlr Talley —or tto
preo* nt location of tto tow Hep* l*rtl*t Ctorcr rorte.it of WlUeoboro. tore to
wa« (rented 137 acre* of lend wMrh to ortered 70 to*. 1T78. (Booh k*. p. IV.
•■ocy, of ttate, tol*l#h, I, - . ) to **« ordained a haptut nirl*ter before 1776
am be««— a be lowed pioneer ftoptlat preacher of HUm and odjaeert OOantle*.

In 1766 to orrarlaed tto Tetoin Baptist tooocUtlon which tec a— tto pnrert of
tom;-— other —*00 1*110— dirt later eowld elal* a — «r*Mp of approal*
netely thirty flw* thnaard, to wa* chapUm In tto —(inert of Colo— 1 tontanln
Clevelnnd hrln( It* fan—* e—r ilfn at lire1* Mountain in tto towolatlonary da r,
(Soo ref* renew to a certificate (Ivor to toorge to *1*1 ty Got. ton) amir. CUveltod,

■ 1®. P» 766 of BorU Garoll— >Utt to*ard* hy noli' oonplUr, pah*

U* tod 1600 hy ■— h Br—., to ldo tore, I. C.)

to wa* —11 educated and d* voted hi* Ilf* to tto — rrleo of M* follow —a.

Tto children of tow. toorg* tolUl* by hU — rrt*(o with hi* Coot* —re —
folio—, order of hlrtto not cortolm

(1) Mary McIUl* (probably). Tradition *«y* that tow. Mr Kiel had a daughter
—nod tory , tom before to c«— to t— rl— .

(?| John totlol*, h*. saw about 17^. to — rr led Fancy Cle— land, doe. of tow.
John Cleveland Jr. , John\ lie aand*r Jr.*, lUianrt wrM and roe— ed to
Fra— 1 in Co., toorgla, Uter • •till— In Ore*nwllU Co., South Caro 11—.
Fanry CU— land wa* • Bloc* of Colo— 1 ton)— lr Claw* land of King** toarw
tain fan*. (Soo Cleveland la— a logy, ?ol. m*|

Killian Me Ml* 1 # b., **y about 1760. to w a* a —volution* ry War — Idlar.
to 1* *ald to haw* — rrled a *1 ater of JaremUh CU— land am to to— Uwod

in Claiborne Co., Tenn. The Cleveland genealogy does not confirm this but
it could have been true, the said sister having married twice. Jeremiah
Cleveland was a son of Robert Cleveland and a nephew of Col. Benjamin
Cleveland of King’s Mountain fame. He had 5 sisters, named Nancy, b. 9
May 1777, who m. a Mr. Reynolds; Elizabeth, b, 15 July 1783, who m. John
Yates; Sarah b. 10 Nov. 1789; Aley b. 2 Nov. 1790; Mary b. 2 Nov. 1791 and
a half sister named Fanny, b. 11 Oct. 1797 and lived in Monroe Co., Tenn.

James McNiel , b. , say about 1763; d. I83lx. (His will, book lx, p. 179,

Wilkes Co., N. C.) He married Mary Shepherd. He settled first in what is
now Ashe County, N. C., later removing to a farm on Reddies River in Wilkes
Co. He was living near Moravian Falla in Wilkes Co., N. C. at the time of
his death. His family consisted of six sera and three daughters as follows

(1) Larkin McNiel3, d. in l82lx. He is said to have married a Miss Vannoy,

His will was dated 9 April 1823 and mentioned "iry beloved wife" but
did not name her. and the following children;

(1) Jesse McNiel11.

(2) John McNiel*4. called Jr. He lived in Overton Co., Tennessee.

(3) Fanny McNiel*4.

(lx) Neal (Neil) McNiel11.

(5) James McNiel*4.

(6) Charlotte McNiel .

(2) John McNiel3, b. 30 Jan. 1796; d. 21 Jan. 1877; m. 22 Aug. 1820,

licence dated, 19 Aug. 1820, in Wilkes Co., Rachel Eller*1, dau. of

John3 and Susannah (Kerns) Eller, supra. For children and grand¬
children see Eller Family VI herein, pages 69 - 87.

(3) Fanny McNiel3, b. 12 Jan. 1799; d. lx Oct. 1856; m., 1st., licence dated

16 April 1817, in Wilkes County, Simeon Eller, b. 8 Sept. 179lx; d.

19 June 1850. He was a son of John3 and Susannah Kerns Eller (Peter
Eller^, George Michael Eller*1). She married 2nd., 5 Aug. 1851,
Colonel Isaac Brown but had no children by him. For children of
Fanny McNiel and her first husband, Simeon Eller, see Eller Family
III herein, pages 177 - 187.

(lx) George McNiel3, b. 1803; m. 21 Nov, 1822, Susan Vannoy, dau, of

Andrew Vannoy*1. Both are shown in the 1850, i860 and 1870 federal
census' of Wilkes County at ages 1x7, 57 and 67 for him and 1x6, 56
and 67 for her respectively and with children as follows,

(1) Jesse McNiel*4, aged 25 in 1850 and not shown in later census'.

(2) Rebecca McNiel*4, aged 20 in 1850 ■ ■ • • • " .

She prob. m. 16 Jan. l85tx, James H. Taylor (Wilkes Co. Rec.).

(3) John McNiel*4, aged 18 in 1850 and not shown in later census'.

(lx) Delilah McNiel*4, aged 16 in 1850 and 25 in i860.

(5) Thomas McNiel4, aged llx in 1850 census of Wilkes Co, A Thomas
McNiel is shown in the 1870 census, aged 3li with wife Jane,
aged 29 and with children, (1) Arthur McNiel'’, aged 12; (2)
Henry C. McNiel'’, aged 8; (3) Wiley McNiel'’, aged 6; (lx) Doctor
McNiel'’, aged 2 and (5) Bessie McNiel'’, aged three months,

(5) William S, McNiel3, b. 1805; m., probably, Polly (Mary) Wilcoxon,

licence issued 23 Dec. 1833, in Wilkes Co., N.C. The 1850 census of
Wilkes Co., N.C. shows the family of William S, McNiel3, aged 1x5 with
wife Mary, aged 13 and children;

(1) James McNiel*1, aged 16.

(2) William McNiel*1, aged llx.

(3) Mary McNiel*1, aged 12.

(6)

(M HarrUtt HcMlal\ i|»l 10.

($) BUM HcMlal*1, i|«1 7.

Mebocea HcMlal', t>. 1506| a. lleanco la road 9 . IB)) la VlUeaa Co. ,

M. C., John Jiiaph rmj lannof^. for chlldran »m Utoj fanlly Till
ha rain, r »gv )70.

(7) 011 var Hctlal*. b. lBOBj a., Ur— le—od la Vila** Co., C., t.

An«. If?*, ~ollUh Kllar, t. If I?. Sha «u a taught# r of fat# r Jr, ^
and Hary ( NnrLngtoo) KUar, for ehil/dnan ana Kllar fiaiSj Till
ha rain, pafaa l?l-L?9.

(6) Marry HeMlal', a. toward J. “onry of VI lie# a boro, I. C.

(9) Kll Hemal*, b. 1817| a., lleonco datod 9 F#b. 1*)* la Vllhae Co.,

C. rai«f KUar, b. Sha *aa a teafbiar of Ma .*r. and

Kll a aba th Kay (Ttrvtoy) KUar. Soa Kllar fanlly TZ, pa|t 6« ha ra¬
in. Thalr f— Uy . 1 vod in Kahn Co., *. . and Ua oanaaa of that

eoanly for i960 a ho— d than to ba agod LB and )7 —apart ivaly and to
havo ehll4ran aa folio—.

(1) A If ha fellah, agod 19.

(7) J— aa He Mia l*1, a«»l 17.

()) Wry He Mia l1*, *g# • 15 In i860 aial 75 1* 1970,

(U Kmllna HeMlal^, agad 1) U i960 an) 71 la 1870.

(5) Mocha 1 NetUl4, agod U la 1B60 — d 70 la 1870.

(6) Tori Ida HcW#l«, f— la, #gol 8 la i960 and a Rary He Mi# 1, agod

19 la 1870, probably Ua »— chill.

(7) Uandar HcMlal*, agod 6 la i860 and 15 la 1870.

(8) Hebocca HcMlal^. agod 1 La i860 and 10 la 1870.

(9) Urby 9. He Ml# 1*, agod 7 In 1*70.

(13) UUU HcMlal**, agod 1 la 1970.

(5) Joooph He Ml# 1 , b, ay a boat 1777| d, about 1855* Ha narrlod Hal ailaon
and 11— d — Mi fathor'a ho— ataad la Wlltei Co. Thn 1*03 c— a— of
VUJtoa Coanty ah— a a fanlly of Jooapfc HeHaal, »i#i 78, living with KlUa*
botli HeHaal, agod 55, and Hibaaca Hdhil, apd )5. TM« o— Id aafea hie
birth data 1771/77 —thar than 1767 aa — — land in tha aVraaa of 6*.

Vi Ulan H. Kllar (npra). *hry ralood Ui— oona and i#o d—ghta — aa
foil— a,

(1) Ufbin He Mi# 1 \ b., th# fadaral eon— a* of Vilhaa Courtly, M. C. gl*##
hie ago aa )7 fa 1890, 16 la i860 and 65 In 1870 and the aga of hie
»l fa Hi Ilia ae 17, *3. and 60 — apacti — ly, H# narrlad, 1 lr—
iaa— d, 7 Oct. 1*)7 In Vllfc#a Co., fcllla Farguaan,
fholr child —n — rni

(1) frarclln HeMlal^, aga 17 la tha 19 and 71 la tha 1*00 e#n# .
Ha aa a a aoldiar in Ua Confoda—ia Stataa iny la in# — r
bat— an Ua • UUi. He did not — rry.

(7) Hary Hrtial-, agod 10 la tha 1853 an! 70 In tha i860 c— — • of
- .in— Co.

()) John HcMlal*, agod 8 in tha 1850 and 19 la tha 1960 e— • of
• Um Co, Tin 1870 oonoaa of tflUtaa On, ah—* ■ 1 ly of

John HcMlal, agod )0 al th al fa He bare a, agod 75 and living
with th— Larkin HcMlal. agal 65 and Mallla HeMlal, agod 60,
t># Uttar too tha pananta d— btlaaa of Johr. HcMlal, Aleo
living in tha f— Uy oaa ona Oordon Fargaaon, ago* 55, a
brothar parhnpa of John HrMlal*# vlfa oho— m14ni n— la
aald to ha— bo— Habacca fargoa— . Living atth John and
Habocca HcMlal la 1970 — ra L— laa HeMlal, agod )0 and
HcMlal, agod 7,

L— laa

1*06

(1*) Rev. Milton McNeill^, b. on Beaver Creek, Wilkes Co., N. C., Jan.
8, 181*6, m. Martha Adelaide Barlow, dan. of Braxton and
Charlotte (Carlton) Barlow, b. July 12, 181*5. Rev. McNeill
(note change in spelling of name) was a Baptist minister in
Wilkes Co. for more than forty-five years, during which time
he held rany positions of trust and responsibility in the
county. He was Sheriff of Wilkes Co., Clerk of Superior Court
for twelve years, and for twenty-one years was deputy clerk of
the Federal Court at Wilkesboro. Issue, nine, as follows:

(1) America McNeill'’, b. June 10, 1863; m. T. H. West. Family
resides. Banners Elk, N. C.

(2) Sarah Jane McNeill5, b. May 5, 1866; m. Mr. Prlvette.

Family resides, Raleigh, N. C,

(3) Julia McNeill5, b. Aug. 17, 1869; ra. J. B. Ccuncill.

Family resides, Jefferson Co., N. C.

(1*) James William McNeill, b. Feb. 3, 1872; d. Jan. 7, 1921*;
m. Anna Gertrude (McNeill) Johnson. Family resided,
Washington, D. C.

(5) Jesse Milton McNeill5, b. Aug. 8, 1871*; m. Lola Vannoy,

(6) Robert Hayes McNeill'’, b. Apr. 25, 1877; m. Cora B, Brown.
For many years was a well known attorney in Washington,

D. C. Has been President of Clan Macneil in America.

(7) Martha Charlotte McNeill5, b. May 10, 1879; m. J. C.
Holbrook. Family resides, Hgjres, N. C.

(8) Rose 7. McNeill'’, b. Mar. 15, 1883; m. John R. Jones,

Family resides. North Wilkesboro, N. C.

(9) Nellie Blanch McNeill5, b. Mar. 5, 1877; m. C. C. Dimnette.
Family resides, Washington, D, C.

Louisa McNeill^1, m. William Pearson. Family resided. Boomer,

N. C.

(2) James McNiel3, a Baptist Clergyman, b. ll* May 1816; d. 17 Dec. 1879

(gravestone in New Hope Cem. , 6 m, n. w. of North Wilkesboro, N. C.);
m. 23 Nov. 1852, Mary Dancy, b. 22 April 1821; d. 19 Aug. 1871*
(gravestone Ibid). Probably had no children who lived to maturity.

(3) William McNiel3, probably the William McNlel who obtained a licence in

Wilkes Co., 30 Nov. 181*3 to marry Martha E. Robertson and shown in
the i860 census of Wilkes Co., aged 1*1 with wife Miriah (sic) aged
39 and with an elderly larfy, Mary Robertson, aged 80, and with child¬
ren as follows,

(1) George B, McNiel^, aged 15,

(2) James McNiel^, aged li*,

(3) Mary E. McNiel^, aged 12.

(1*) Thomas McNiel*1, aged 10.

(5) There probably were other children.

(1*) Nellie McNiel3.

(5) There were two other daughters; names not found.

W. McNiel Sr. (supra).

(5)

See letter of George

J

(6) Elizabeth McNiel . She married Robert Bingham of Virginia, a Revolutionary
War soldier. They had three sons as follows:

(1) William Bingham3.

(2) Joel Bingham3.

(3) George Bingham3 of Watauga Co.. N. C. who married and had five sons,

one of whom was Major Harvey11 Bingham who went to the Senate of N. C.
in 1876 and another son, Thomas Bingham*1 who w^s three times elected

to th* iofl*l*tur* of korth Co roll no. Two othor *on* prabotly wwrw
tooulro Jo hr Blngtun on-* ' r. Philnor* Blnfhoa of Wotoigo Cjunty.

(7) Kory HcVUl?. Sho norrl*4, lLewncw 1mw4, 1 *>▼. 1003. In tfllkos Co.. I. C.
H*fuy Hlllor, ion of *1 Ilian Rlllar, o tefolatloMry Wor loleiUr, Thwy
li«*4 on th* *owth fork of Lwwls Fork Crook 1a Wllh»a County. Two of thwlr

doafhtor* w»r*i

(1) r«i (hUr Klllor oho oorrlod Nr. Forks.

(?) Doaghtor R&UoP who oorrlod Hr. Ungfori.

()) Horry *lll*r\ probably o ion, oho llwd on o fo rm 1a CalhoU Co. , l.C

(6) bwr.Jaolr Hr VI o 1* . Mo aorrl*1, l&ronco Untl la|. 1M^ 1a lkwa Co..

I. C. , til i troth Llpo. Tho f sol ly U*w4 or tho i&ih fork of L*wi* Fork
Cr»A In 4llh*a Co., Ihm all* a fro iw old loot* Fork Ballot Oaarch.
Th*y rOi*4 o f »«; 1/ of mo« ooro «M or* iot|hWr oil of Wmo aovwi oil
oacwpt KnoO Hetlol) ikori roit bo low.

(1) Enorh MM . . 1BU| 4. bo for* IF 70 1 a. lUiobtU. T>» 194) md

1060 eoroo*' of tflUti Co. show* Kiocb Twnajr, ip ' )7 or.* 17 tol

hi* vlf* Klliotath, *i»4 7* tfkrl 77 r»ir»fllwlf with children u
followo.

(I) Horrlott Hekl*l , i(»4 • In 17® w*' 1* 1a i960.

(?) >0*00 klUl% *C4 7 1A W«0 or*4 16 In i960.

(3) M*nry Hrbiol^. o*w4 k Ia IF t") orvl in 1M0 root* NntllUr Hrklol,

»#• ' 13 In i960 m4 ?? 1a 1070. H*r now probob ly wo* tancy
FwruilUr Hrklol,

(9) mil loo Hcklwl*. a#*1 1 in W<0 oaI U U 1960.

(5) toll Hr >V# W uU) .(*4 0 1A i960.

(6) Colioom* H-ki.^, I|H k 1a 1960 ooi Ik lo 1970.

(7) Hory Hr*i*l^( or*i 1 in 1*60 oo) 10 1* 1070.

(0) UrklA Hctul^. ofwO 5 ia 1070.

(9) Fori lor HekUW. 1 mU Ia 1070.

(9) Than** vr..l\ 6. 179?| 6. 9 1*6<, o^4 «) ywor*. H* o. HU« F.rtww,

6*o. of %», .'w»» For* an* of Sorry County, I. C. , ttw* lining Ia i#w Co*
Thoy hod chlMrwoi

(1) Jooi *c»i.l\ dl.d 16 Fob. IF" (prob. 1969) o**4 nuor 95 yworo.

(?) >.h - . 61*4 0 Mm IF' . >«*4 »*r ?0 yworo.

(3) Oborgo W. Hrkl*l\ b. 7 1**. 1§?<, 61*4 17 ko*. 1«U (froww.tono).

H* norrl* eo«M U«*4 Ia F.lhi Co., ■. C., 70 Jon. 1917, I««Im
Trtplolt. Ho wrot* l*o lot tor is*« an (p. k00>?. Th* tfllhws Goirty
oonau*' of 1960 nod 1070 ohow Oworg* HcV|*l ag*4 39 m*4 90 roop»
tliwly with w If * Ufley (*lc) of*4 >0 Ia 1060 «4 Lml*o, *4*1 99 Ia
WTO oM with chi 1 4rwn o* folUvt.

(1) Sorwh Ann Hcklol^, 10 Ia i960.

(?) Milano Hetlolt, if 1 F In i960.

(3) John T. Hr*Ulk, **»4 9 in i960 md 15 Ia 1070*

(9) Kortho Hr ki» l**, if 9 In i960 on4 19 Ia 1070.
rn PUiy H-k lAl^, rn*4 ? Ia I960 oa* 11 la 1970*

••ri* m. Hr kiwi Jr. 9, *f*4 | aonth* Ia i960 a*4 10 la 1070k
(7) illco Hrkui**, ofwd 0 Ia WTO.

(0) J iwi He ki* t i«*i 5 Ia 1070.

(9) Thono* Hcki.W, 0«W4 9 in 1070.

(10) J*m T . Hr kiwi1*, oft 6 uxiUw in 1070.

(9, 5, 6) Throw toghlwr*, mu not fawn*, (to Uttar of torgw M.
Hrk*ll, Sr. ( *upro).

APPENDIX

Copies of old letters sir* other papers pertaining to the fami¬
lies chronicled In this book and such genealogical data as may
hare been received too late to be included in the main text.

409

dttur written op Mtmj tll«r , (SImoo1*, Johr\ Nur?, Imik* Michael1)
to hi* nophew, M. 3aith*r Whittington of *1 lha* Co., Morth Caroline in wjor to
on laiyslnr ukinf advice about removal to Iowa. ( Vae II Ur fwlij I ? 1 1, p. 138.)

Conpalina, low*.

Mm. 14, 1387.

Mr. «. 0. tfhllllivtoo

'ear h»ph*w

Tom of Uw Ut L**t, l* *t hit' iiH Contort* MU4, It found oil 1« food
Moo 1th and 91*d p*u M<n# 4 op Cou r*#a U • nr i no* o* poo o«« iqr *ldo«

with hvgar4 to MlfriUm to tho Mil od Securing on t ti c«l loo will Mrooaad to
(1 o it. Irnl^ u ! 4o lh* • *nr'i/*i of th* Twc Imi or h»b* 1* f*r

ouporlor in 1/fc cation* 1 w) Serial. Moral iM SUrloti i4virU|«i than poor
Country. Thor*'* a UiU 4*nl mm fin m* hurpfl m ham. mm ha «* * Spate*
of Ca—on School f -hie at Loo «M<h t* at* 'lately fro* to tho Mi pi 1 to irotU *vry
on* to Serum Sufficient U* ml nr to Tranaoet tto Ordinary twain*** of Ilf*, hod
th*n m ham inn* cheola, in ‘onto* 4 CoU'-pi »t* r* u* fl|hir ^raoehM ora
7««ll. 4 loo o atoto normal r*r» Taathara ira Tralni for ts*ir » r% in >ocUn<

and Still nor* o 3t«to Qnlmrally, Tuition oil fro*. Of Court* poo ho** to pop
pour board. Thom la a rood Vat* School at Mart ire tnrg 4 alio* frn *7 in.**

»*» ra pou could attend and hoard with m y going on I -m.« i, U«a hulna
about 13,990 Teacher*, ho if» ouaal to |9),U3*00 aad tho Vnend l* jnoroooi
log oil th* tin*, fact iu«*i« of oar boat pong p**pU Diallh* Teaching on
account of lh* Clo** Conflnooor.t and oo n*««r *nw« in am than an* or No Taro*
and than go out of th* %>•! naa*. faming la h<»rwl a* l*» OOf *0t, a. at haoir*
all ** Occupation in our Stata. Tou r*t nor* n*n*p par north for T*ac Mng but pou
apand nor* and a port of th* tiaa auat to I Ha, *ag*a fron I? <.90 to i«).00 *nl
faro Up* ar fro* II?. 90 I '0.30 par mtth irU 1* $:.JO t»r mu, for

Teaching l hay gat marly aa nuch a* aon. a* to aiding at th pa of Couraa I
•Mould a apart poa to ontil poa Could 9* bat tar with »*a ana aln*. I ahal not
Inoad a hood Til ah oat Mly 4 than a hall aont a hand to th* Ant* of ISO. or I40.00.
Should pour Si* tar bora **#• m to Co* <o ear got 'toady lag 1-ymnt with gr
9mgMer North* at D,00 par aooh . * m Una )/4 of • olio fra* *» Hi Id oa of
the beat aooan on tarts, ha a ) CM Id me ymngaat 1* A paam old. Or If ah* la
for enough advanced coo TO* o school at oboat |7<.00 par A*. T pH School* poo
would hare to bo hear bp lha Ut. of ifw' 1. »ip pniy me am a fatal alatOi
bp inoginlnr they eon aa tantlr bocam rich, be them la notMhr • ' fatal to our
Mac l naa a a* thla VI avion. Madheca ha* Vcraad trot bp t*a avaat af the Ira*

«*• i‘jI mi our brand. • nothing hgralin about Ipoat Toll but oo th*

Contrary It la Irabllig. I IM* it a blnaifg to mat pang nan that they war*
boro of Puce Pumrvaga aa their ulada ar* ouch batter Meciplim4 for aoefblma*
l* of tor U haata to ba rlrh. Nartng food and holnant bo MBlaat,

Oultlauto tho Higher Vac** of Chrlttloo Hnhaod. Oho of old aoid ho hod never
Inmn lh* Alghtooua foroa**n or hi* •*! bagging bmal. tn thin Country w* law
young me aha have bean rolaad lo *a*a W Uury that «r «n Thread out for l>—
aol*a* mm too Uij to worn too Pmod to hag and Tao Man**t to Steal . 1 CUea

with the hope of hearing frw pm again ion*.

Tour* with grwate hi apart •

Marmp 11 Ur

1*10

Copy of letter from Israel Curtis Eller^, 5th son and 8th child of Harvey
and Mary Caroline (Vannoy) Eller^, (Simeon^, John^, Peter^, George Michael^-).
See Eller Family XIII, p, 188 herein.

Blair, May 25th, 1923.

Mr. W. A. Hook,

Rolla, Missouri.

Dear Wallace :

Yours without date asking for data and statement of facts of family history
of your late mother came duly to hand and noted, I delayed answering until I
could get the matter better in mind, and am fearing now that I have delayed longe
than I ought.

Will say, first that I was glad to get the letter and also to acknowledge
receipt of your Christmas card, which came to hand whiles t I was at Greensboro,

N. C, whither I had gone to be with ny brother William H. during his last days.

I arrived in Greensboro on Dec. 17th last and brother Will died Dec. 23d and we
buried him Dec. 2l*th, being the day before Christinas. He was conscious up to
three or four hours before his death but was a great sufferer from Brights dis¬
ease but was very patient and most kindly disposed to all. I did not return home
until Feb. 2d, I left Carrie very sick with pneumonia, but she had begun to get
better before 1 left. The girls both worked themsel^s down the past two years.
First their mother was sick about 1* months and died and was buried Dec. 21, 1922,
Just about a year before Will died. The girls each have good husbands, who are
doing well aid each has a good home and in very good circumstances financially.

Now as to my family history. I will first remind you that as I was bom in
Iowa do*! near old Brookville. I cannot remember ary incidents of father and
mother moving to Iowa, I not having been bom until a little over a year after
they had settled there.

My father once told me that the slavery ouestion was being agitated in his
section of N, C. from the time he was married and, as he was a poor man and had
a family of seven small children, he determined because of same to remove to the
new State of Iowa in the summer and fall of 1852, He did not want to bring up
his family in the midst of a comunity or state where slavery was recognized and
practiced by the more wealthy class.

Harvey Eller was bom in Wilkes County North Carolira March 2li, 1819. He
was the eldest son of Simeon Eller and his wife Frances or Fanny (McNeil) Eller.
He was married Nov. 181*1 to Mary Caroline Vannoy of Wilks Co., N. C. These were
my father and mother, grandmother Fanry McNeil, as T remember it, was a
daughter of James McNeil, of said Wilkes Co, N. C., who was a son of Elder George
McNeil, who was a Chaplin in the Revolutionary War ard is the ancestor from whom
Elizabeth Eller Stone founded her claim (No, 181712, dated July 28, 1922). (Also
see copy of "In Memoriam," herewith.) Elizabeth Eller Stcne is your Cousin Bess,
of Greensboro, C. Carrie, her sister, has also applied, but when I was there
she had not secured her number. (The "In Memoriam" was a Memorial Booklet which
commemorated the 100th anniversary of the death of Rev. George McNiel of Wilkes
Co., N. C. - J. W. H.)

My mother above nared was the daughter of Jesse Vannoy and his wife Polly
(Kilby) Varnoy, both of Wilks Co, N. C, and ry said grandfather was, as I have
been informed, a son of Nathaniel Vannoy, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War and fought at the battle of Kings Mountain and the Cowpens. Bess is also
making a (D.A.R.l claim under him as sn ancestor and said when she got it through
that she would give me the nurfcer thereof as a reference.

Sister Maggie was here last winter and she says she has our family tree all

fell

written out. Sho hot your crardfa* hor'* Blbl# In which brot *w r Pill who look* *
tht Mate ry up and cot tho 4iU, 00 r 1 •*' *. If it loti hooo it il hand aha will

bo clod to f umloh It for too and It will bo »w*ch ooro coacloto thur X cor. ft** 1*.

TVh join mo « It tor Mattio *'lcfc 'no uv4 X olollod old fcrtk Core lino St»u
ond wont ur into Uw noun tat no abort 11 tlU« aorthoil of 'ter- or, *. C.

and taw tho old horn *“!*»•*, ibo wont tor and oaw a fourth cousin, on* .'*»•
filar, and than wort to tho old Icadooy, It bolnc tho oi4 ochool houso, and tho
burial lot adjolnlnc and vitltod all of our arcottoro' ira*t» thoro and tho old
church of whic - I wrlto haroaftor. Vf tor thlt, wo wont op into tho "ourtalno of
la ho County, V. C. at a Uttlo a Vat Ion callod •Una,' whoro wo opont a w«ofe olalt*
Inc with m fathor'a only Uv^f brothor, Jowt 11 lor, an' hi* food wlfo iUry
Carlo Von 11 lor and with that r foully who Uvt naar than and It waa tha wot
do llchtfu 1 rlalt arm oould lna*lno. .'nclo Jla told aw any amodotoa or llttlo
lncidooto at tha aarly Ufa of ay fathar. ('.’nclo J wwi la now 93 and Aunt Hary
la 91 yoara old and mo oora thoro at Vhalr ?Xb waddlr* amlsoraary).

Undo Jin aald that fathar prorurod a lor (o w»|oa with tha old-fa* hi ana 1
ochoonor boa, put a ear or an It, put in tho ir Luc x*1 M* wlfo an4 fanlly of
chill ron and aturVud northwoatward by oay of C«nb*rlaai pap, or lie Stono or,
than norUuasatward through *mvllU, Fy., to Loo 1 awl 1 lo , wharo ho craoool tho
Ohio, than norttoMot throw* h a part of XnHana, on throw** Vl<l|Mili and up to
Cartha*o, XU. and crooooi tho Mlaolaslppt at tuohub ud from thoro up tho Fort
tfca Noire • road until ho pot to Falrflold «td f ran thoro to Undo Howl do, at tho
old Pardon Tracy faro about two allot tooth and 0 half olio out of Bromrtllo.

Tha hardaMr* of th la trip con orarooly ha mart***, until I tall you that fathar
■tartod with four ho root, ri<*lnr wo of tho loro, and drowo tho load loan
until oolhor took a left about «>.M1U, *▼., whoro thoy had to oaip oaroral daya
and wtnro on of tha Coma, no af )roonoboro, or roeontly do -^o wood, pomlttod
thoo to oeoopy ow of hla lop hoooat. Cano « oamfactnror in a ouU oay and

hod a fow eablno for hla holp, ana of o leh net than oeouplwd. At tMa placo

fathar oao oonpollod to 00 U an 0 of hla horooo, two •* Inc tho ram Inter of tho
trip with throw horooa, ho rMldf tho rl|M whoalor and *rl»tnr tho loads r.

Undo Jin that whan thoy owartod for !m> no ono in tho rooworowo of

tho poop la thoro had o nr a* do aocb a yoaraoy, and no on oar aapoclod to aoo
thon apala, ao all tho iwhyi ooro oald and farowaU a <w mm. Jin

aanp tha aor* that fathar tan* to hla author 1O1 ho loft. Rla fathar hod died
about too yoara boforo. % aloo told 00 that 00 sural youM ■**, brotmro on both
a ldo a of ipr pnronto, uoacanUd thoa woiImH witll thoy had paoaad 000 r tha
RnPi at a placo called tho Jopldc off plaoa, to 000 that thoy had no aoc irtonu
thoro.

how ao to fat ho ra avMnp M» 9. C. faro will a ay , that abaot tho tint or
P* rant a woro aarrlod, fathar oon true tod for a aloo pi 000 of tlnbor land lylnc
oboot a alio and a half oaat and a llttlo north of tho old Pm Hopo hopUot Chore*
bur Lai lot and acateay . h built a cabin and bo car cult try and oloarlnc and
bumlnc until ho had a niro llttlo fiold uw f I rot yoar and tho mat yoar aoro
and ao on until ha had tha a *ir portion oultloatod. It waa rood product loo land
for t hat court ry and ho built a ntro now from houoo t horooo, «*. lch waa out of tho
ordinary for t hat country at that tloo. Joot abaot tMa tin and boforo ho had It
paid for, hi* fathar ' Imon II lor, oho oao a blurb an 1 th and fwnaalth by t rodo , and
oho had alpnod no to a with fathar for tho in^obtadnooa, 4 Lad about Jana 1*0.

Fathar oaa tho adnlnlotrator of hi* • a Vatu, an4 a* ouch faun4 It no rots ary to aoll
oot ao hla fathar'e aatato which had oulta a bit of nunoy in tin f ana in co-part*
norahlp with hla. So tho faro waa put op for aalo and Unslo Jin. oho had narrlud
about that tlm, hla wlfa conAnr from a wualtrpr, a luru atm in* fanlly, boucht tho
f am and novod thoroon and thoy all Hood thoro toputhor for a a Sort tint boforo
fathor loft for Iowa. TMa daoa not looh 1 lira a oury coo4 ah owl M, but liar* land

there could be bought for two or three dollars an acre at that time, the most of
the value being In clearing it off, you will see that he must have started with
little or nothing and held his own pretty well. He was rich in children, however,
with eight more to be bom to him and mother in Iowa making a family of 15 in all.

Uncle Jim said that in community life my father and mother were leaders of
their day. That at the church, since they had no musical instruments, the minis¬
ter would line the hymn and ask father to pitch the tune which he would do and
that he trained the young people there to sing and was often called upon to go to
other churches and meetings to help out with the singing, and was always much
welcomed. He told me that often old or superanuated ministers would come to
attend church at old New Hope, sometimes methodist, other times hardshell Baptists
and other times United Brethren and Campbellltes, and he recounted one little
incident. The minister was what he called of the Iron Jacket faith, who had a
most peculiar droll and sing-song voice. Their minister out of courtesy asked
him to preach that day and after about an hour and a half of hard labor he closed

the sermon or harangue as uncle Jim called it, and asked the congregation to

arise. The people by this time were tired and much amused and he announced the
hymn and read it over once with his sing-song tone and then lined the first
couplett of the first stanza and requested that someone start the tune. At this
all eyes were turned to father, who was so amused that he was not paying good at¬
tention, and when he saw all eyes turned to him, was a little startled, and to
gain time , asked that the minister line the song again. By this time everybody
was in a twitter and the sing-song tone of the preacher was so noticeable that
father, so full of laughter could not pitch the tune without laughing in the
minister's face, so he merely said, "Why is not the tune you have Just used good

enough," and there was such a glgle that the minister simply gave the benediction.

Uncle gave me many little incidents of father's life.

^y father, Harvey Eller, taught school at the old Academy. He had been very
diligent in his studies at home, but had never gone to school. There were then
no public schools in N. C. All they had were private schools. &it his Uncle
Peter Eller, hie father's youngest brother, was instrumental in establishing this
old Academy of which I speak and taught the school for some time. He was called
Colonel Peter Eller, because of holding that office in the County Militia, For
many years after the Revolutionary War the soldiers and even the people generally
kept up the drilling and mustering in of the men of the Country so that should
war again be declared that they would in some measure be able to meet the eneny .

I think he had also been a Colonel in the Seminole or some other Indian war. He
was a brother to Uncle David, who had first removed to Indiana, and then to Iowa,
and to whom father went when he removed to Iowa, Uncle Peter was father's
example and helped father much with his studies. Uncle Peter was a member of the
Legislature, and a man of great ability. His picture is in the N, C, State House,

The Vamoy'e were of French extraction. Tradition says the ancestor, John
V annoy , came from Huguenot migration to South Carolina in the same ship with
Francis Marions' parents and the above named John V annoy was bom the day they
landed. Owing to change in spelling from French to English, it has been so far
impossible to trace the name. The family were driven to England, from thence to
Holland, then England again, then to America by religious intolerance.

The V annoy family is thought to be one of the oldest families of the Baptist
faith there is in America today.

This John Van nay married ana his wife's name was Susannah, They had many
children and amongst them was Nathaniel Vsnnoy, who was bom Feb, 16, 17li9. (Died
at Oreenvllle, South Caroline, at the hone of his daughter, Mrs. Sallie Cleveland,
July 26, 1835.) He was a soldier of the Revolution and served with Colonel
Benjamin Cleveland in the battle of Kings Mountain and was a pioneer settler on
Bever Creek In Ashe County, N. C. and afterwards settled on Lewie Fork of the

413

Yet* In Nlver In Wllkea Cownty, I. C. Nk » u half French and half Irgllah In atock.

The ibova la laritly V annoy tradition and nay not bo true | it la all I hare .

The aneeator Nathaniel Tanner and hi a fanilyi

I have no reoord of hla marriage, bat hi a vlfo'a nano waa Kill a both hay of
la ho Goanty , I. C. John Tanncy, the Ir eon, eaa bom Nay 72, 1775. Na waa aald
to hare boon a aoldlor in war of U17, a n4 haa a doocondant living at inarlcan
Fork, Utah, who haa the fanlly hlatory.

Joel Tanrvoy , eon of lathanlo 1 T annoy and Klikabeth, hla wife, waa bom Fob.
73d, 1777. Ha oottlod in Flko Zo, Rlaaoarl , in on early day.

Sarah Tanner. 4n|SUr at Nathaniel and Kllaabeth, waa bom Jan. 16. 1779.

She narrled Jo real ah Cleveland, eon of Cart. »x»ert Cleveland then of tfllkea Co..

I. C. . bet who rveovol to ireenvi lie. 5. C.

Jeaae Tonnoy, ooo of aald Nathaniel and Kliaabeth Tauwy waa bom Jaly 7.

1761. ha lived to h>v. 76, 1975 «nd dlod at hla old hone nvar Lewi a Fork, a: lava
Coonty, I. C. Na waa ay nother'a father. I visited hie crave at the old New
Nope bury In* groan*. Na eaa Id yuete the ecriptwraa fra nanory, dupur by
charter and often conformed the aleO fey hla pmeence and % reyere.

Nary Illby. wife of above nued Jeeae ▼ amoy . waa bom Sort. 19. 1765. and
died Fob. 16, 1*6». . he van narrled to Jeeae fny Jan. 17, INK. She woe aald
to be am at the neet eeefel wanan at her generation ananpet her na lghbom. ae a
helper In alcbneae end one at the conet ltaent mmttmra at the old hv Nape Naptl at
Charoh. She waa f«al liarly known aa *A«nt Fo 1 1/ T annoy, • by all her naighborv
and the ch lldrwa. She naned ■ ore children than any other if m In the caantry
krliy the a awe period of tine ever naned.

Jeeae Varney and Nary Kilby Tawy rare the pamnte of nary a na and

Nary Carolyn Vannvy a waa bom Feb. 19, 1*7). at levia Folk, vilhee Coaily,
■. C. She woo worried to Narnwy | 41 aa I bell ma. bwt which

data yoa will meelve with the data of the R Her fanlly fmo Slater Katfla, If

yea will apply, oo 1 will net fin yaw oem *wet n .

Virginia Kller waa the third child bom to Narvwy and Nary Carolina Kller.

She waa bom Oct. 10. 1945. She waa narrled to Janea N»oh of Nartliwbwrg. town.

I thick in 1667. 1 de not raaaaoar Ue date, bwt believe It waa La the fall.

Too r nether eaa alneet a nether to ae fma the tine I eaa two yea ra old
■all 1 I was fin or ala. a a vy aether Nad oe neny little one a ahe ooold hardly
■other me all. X ooed to thlaC ywor asUwr the noct • wdarf-i girl X knee at and
.Hat a a Nandeone aa wanrierfal. "he vu a bwaatifhl girl, haa attended the old
Chllecothe School located a Naif alio f ran tha "ameer School.

ibmt the winter of 1*44 and 1665. ahe wont with brother Ml 111 an, «ho bed

boon dlecharyed fno the aorvlee of ooantry, and kept howae for hie la Fairfield

and they both attended whet waa called Nr. laol Inwa private echeol. A very food
aches 1. owt of dilch ifUrvark grow Fhreoaa College. X rather believe now that
ahe went for the winter torn 196) alee. 9 ha a*da fine yrefTwea ee that la 1644
and 1*6* ay alater Nancy, >at ywanger than Jvnr.U. went aloe. Jamie cane hone
In the aprlng of 1665 and eeewred her flret achoel. the old Sloe Jeene echeol. and
year "ntU VI 1 Haa N»ob waa one of the 4 1 me tore and was mry good to her. I ha
often wort to their hoove to stay all night, aa It waa not oo far to walk, bat
aoot of the tlae Oa cave K-mm, X after oaed to take old Far and ride behind her
and take hr over or brim her kvw. Old Col. Oliver Coffear, *• nry Cef fear's
father, waa a INirre In tha fleah to kr. Na waa and beeeweo ire 4 tree tore hired
her and turned down hla eon Ton, and acted very aggravating to her and fwt Karri*
•on, who waa a little boy then, op to lote of nearness.

Xn 1667, or poetlbly a little oarller or later, ary*0* It waa wMle year
Oncle kllll an lived an the eld nen "4 ml a place, year new freowently helped year

Aunt Amy, and especially so when there were any children bora to the family. After
your father had enlisted in the Civil War and possibly when he returned and got a
furlough, (about 1863), he came out to visit your Uncle William. This was the
first time I had ever seen your father. He was wearing soldier uniform and he
came over with your Uncle William Hook and the children and they took your mother
home with them to help your Aunt Amy with the children. This was the first time
your mother had ever seen your father, I did not see your father again until 1865,
in the fall. He and your grandfather Hook and all his family came or rather moved
to Iowa and went to your Uncle Will who had bought and was living upon the Ferrlll
Riley farm. Then all of them together bought out Rolland and Jim Baker, William
Hook sold the Reiley farm to a man named Hayes and moved to the Baker farm and
your grandfather built a new house west but north of the road and Just opposite
the old Jim Baker house. Here Sadie, Willie and Frank Hook were bom.

The next I remember of your father he had bought a span of yellow horses, old
Jack and John, and made a lease or sub-lease of the old Weimer 80, I believe he
lived for a year or so with your grandpa Hook and fanned. The first year after he
was married he lived in the old Jim Baker house and your sister Mary was born there.
Then he bought the lease on the Weimer 80 of Jess Ankrom,

The first year I knew your father very well was in the spring, summer and
fall of 1866, and winter of 1867, The young people had singing school at the
school houses, or at private residences and brother Cleve and his girl, sisters
Nan, Mary and Jennie with their fellows attended. Tour dad was Jennie's fellow.
Well when they came to our house, the girls would make us little ones wash our
faces and feet, and wipe our noses and set away back on the old bench and keep
still and listen to them as they sang. Old Bob Black was the singing master, and
T tell you they made the welkin ring. They had a song they sang called "Silent
Night," Bro, Cleve carried bass, Jerrle treble, Nan alto, and your dad tenor, and
I often yet imagine I can hear them sing "Fairy Moonlight" wherein, while the
soprano was dwelling on the word, the tenor would sing, fairy, fairy, fairy moon¬
light. So well pleased were we little fellows, that we nicknamed your dad "Old
Fairy," and when talking about him amongst ourselves, or when we wanted to tease
your mama we would call him that. But if your mother would tell our mother what
we called your dad, the only reason we did not get reproved was because we hiked.

Now don't you think it is time for me to ring off. That is what I am going
to do now but will say this, that if the above does not worry you a bit, and you
want more then let me know and I may remember something else. Oh, yes I rer-.on.ber
a little incident of your mother's life which will show something of her religious
nature.

It was in 1866. Elder Tracy had cone down from Fremont and organised what
was called a protracted meeting at the old schoolhouse, which then stood on the
Old !>s Moines air line highway, about LO rods northwest of the road that then
angled from the old tovr sight to McMillan corner, about liO rods northwest of old
Marysville, They had preached, sarg and prayed for about two weeks without ask¬
ing for converts, or for anyone to express a desire to be prayed for. Elder Tracy
had said at our house at supper that right that he was going to extend an invita¬
tion this night for anyone who wanted the prayers of those in attendance to
simply arise in their seats, Polly Baker who afterwards married Christ Breon, was
at our house. She and your mother were great friends. So that night about two
wagon loads of our people w* nt dowi to the meeting and after a powerful sermon
ard some singing Elder Tracy gave the invitation to anyone who wanted the prayers
of God's people to arise while they sang. They sang about six verses of a good
old song and no one arose. The Elder exhorted them again and noticing a pretty
strong feeling among them gave them another opportunity and they sang another
song through and then repeated his request. Still no one arose. The Elder again
exhorted them and gave them another opportunity and they sang again. There was a

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Uri« crowd, mio lUmflai tn IN liU ud cl«»r «i of IN door, xi i*» « md
Tout mm oil ■lliiaf in th* achooi Malt, Too r wtNr K«1 >il ran* how* from
tmr icNol Ln FairfliU anl no ana iNn an*« bar vary wail or tolly -**«r tiiNr,
u mittnr Nad not Hood U INI aactlan lone, and ah* and Rlaa Kdtr min
aa*«n of lha NarUM«ar|t N( U a Oatrch ard your aoVhar fNlUy INI awry Hill*
«u laeaaMry to aUrt a f*«- lno mini aald to toUyt *Thajr he'l kiw ,# ao 1*1
«a (*t ap and wjrta aa— on* ala* vlll," ao ao thay tone, nr.i * and tolly fot up.
'Naa* c rl*d Ildar Tracy and aald, *!o not INn otiwra,* and • *w- 1N7 fot
thmmfdi art* inf o**r 130 N1 arloon and 1N7 bad IN **•*. in* l bay had * r*r

had, raaalUnc In omr a Na4nd oomorolano, and in* ^r«a*niaall<»a of a nry strong
C torch, ! hoar* t‘« f*l*i iCl'.y '.M* *mr afl*r r '■ s«*. I did not at-

land, I had ao aho*a,

CrtU a* again, dlth low an* boat vl*ho* Va all of yoar fanlly an* bmlhora

and a 10 tar,

(oiynad) !. C. filar

(One la * art la - J.tf.l.)

TN foll«U| la «MtNr lot tar *rllt*e by Saraol Xrtia lllar, If fobmary
17). It 'alii of hi# rra a l nr 1* avid UUf'i h.w |n Aa'foraoa Orntf, It wa
and tha aarly tawi In Iowa of hit porania, Nmy and *ury Carolina (Tamyl
BUar. ^ Ml,

or no* or I. c. filar,

tttomay ot Urn,

•lair, •» r.. **b. 17th Iff),

Hr, Jm*i a, *aot,

7A Inntt St., w. n«m, Cana.,

^ door hpani

Taar lattar af th* Mb lnat„ m«*|md Mad wt appmclalad, ad, aa tnia la
a hollar am I ha*a in tin* will iatinr to anawr at ana*, tat will 1*4 yaa
to aamao t *0 art l inr am arrart, a* I a* #1— » ta day ar. • h**a no oiN r •* af
aft tine lha lattar aarapt by pl-ai n* It oat an th* Typo wriur o a*l/. tol#
!••*•• all «T aa pratty *all. N#ur, yaar an* ala Laala* la ohla to ba ap
•m orraand lha man abnt oil tho lia t> ia atnt*r. lha had a vary aar k>a0 #rwll
of tlchnot* loot foil or oamar, In* hod an opo ration far on obatmet Ian In tha
bwal. Nr Natan*, hr, hrrii and tha llllla frond ia.|»v»r, flat aa ora walli
tha lattar la rw arty nor yaara all, % othar *a^%i*r, hallna attll lima In
Tha *olna a. ha No taro* llttla firla. to alNot, wily la a»r^ alyl and

franca* la Hi paat and hmy la four yaara alt, Unr* arlllng yon IN7 hoi a
bad f! rm *• icf» Nalmywl In ( art lha ir Nana, tola acmrad oboal a *a*a bafor*
ThtiUai am thay Nn >ii f ot tan ami boat into Valr Nan afala of tar
mandoline and ropalrlnf U# a ana.

Taar fl ml awatlaa aa* aa ta nacla 3a *11 filar'* hooaa, b* nary r *wa It
had an* v** larf* a fanlly N had.

dill • ay that a a that vaa bafam I »#• bom I cannot anowar It only aa to
•hat X laamad an* an** lharwaftar. m rial 1*1 INn aurh to for* * vln« to th*
tfnaa •• Thai* f am on IN ho ad af llttla ^ tar :r*«* a llttla wit and 1«U af
aid tolahnof# in tha Sprint af 1M 6, ar 1 of tar *a aovad ap on tha SO in faction <
an tha county Una South af "art La* t*,rt*v. O thoao lattar * liiti I aa* th* k- a*
W* know it mil. :• .»• * * wt 1* * *1 -*•. . ‘ . ** * r.«* at* 111 0*8. *

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houses were a story and a half high one of them about 16 by 18 feet the other was
larger and may have been 20 by 2U feet and they set in an ell shape with a porch
to the east of one and to the North of the other with frame liento's to the East
and South of the room on the Southeast comer, These houses had been weather
boarded on the out side, with oak or bass wood lumber sawed at a country saw mill,
the logs furnished from uncle David* s holdings. There was a big fire place in
each house. The out side of this house was painted white or else they had white¬
washed it. The paint, as I remember, was scaling off and that makes me think it
might have been white wash. Now as to Uncle's family. He raised two sons and
two daughters by a first marriage and one daughter by his second marriage, and his
second wife had two children by her first marriage. His first wife's children
were all grown and married when father came to Iowa except the youngest son.

Their Oldest daughter Jane or Mary married a man named Tinsley (her second husband)
and they lived on an adjoining farm and had a family of children about the age of
Brother Will and Cleve and your mother. Some of this family still live at or near
Batavia Iowa, Great Uncle David's oldest son, Jesse F. Eller, was married and he
mo •wd to Cass County Iowa about l8$i or 5, He used to stop at our house when he
was passing from the west or to the west after visiting at home. He settled on
land near Atlantic Iowa where he died in the eighties. He raised oulte a family
of boys and girls, one of whom, Washington Eller, was United States Marshall,
during Grover Cleveland's last term, for the State of Iowa,

Great Uncle David's second daughter, Clarissa, Married a man named Bill
Marlon, said to be descendant of Francis Marion of revolutionary fame. They lived
in and near Brookvllle a long time. The last I knew of them they removed into
Northwestern Nebraska and settled North of Hay Springs, The second son of Great
Uncle David, named John Eller, was the youngest and lived at home with his father
until about 1855 or 1856, He married Mary Parnell. Now Mary Parnell was a sister
to Uncle William Eller's wife, Katherine, About 1853 or l651i, ny father's brothers
John and William followed him to Iowa. Uncle William' e children, as I remember,
were Caloway, the oldest, Henrietta Peck who lived in Otturwa, Angelins, America,
Thonas, Franklin, David and Robert, This family removed to Nebraska where many of
them still live, Thomas lives at Trumbull Nebr. and Calaway still live* near
Sac re men to California. Brother Jease visits him occasionally. Uncle William
Eller's wife Catherine was the oldest of three orphan girls named Parnell, so when
they came to Iowa, aunt Katherine's younger sister came with them. She was a
young woman so when they came, John Eller, great Uncle David's son and ny father's
cousin, fell in love with and married her. They lived on Great Uncle David's farm
until the Civil war, when father's cousin John snlisted and servsd throughout ths
war. Upon hla return he famed one or two years and then removed to where his
brother Jesse lived out near Atlantic Iowa, My great uncle David was a wall to
do man and had entered land enough for all his children so John want to the land
his father gave him. He died and is buried at the Atlantic, Iowa Cemetery, His
wife also died there some years later. I visited them once and John visited us
here in Blair a time or two. They did not have ary children.

Great Uncle David had a most beautiful farm of probably 2li0 acres part
prairie land and part timber and sloping off to the Southeast towards Cedar Creek,
He had a bearing orchard and when he came to visit us was always sure to bring a
bushel or two of apoles. That was the only fruit we could get hold of as there
was not an orchard about us old enough to bear, I have heard ny father say that
uncle David settled there about 1835 coming via Nauvoo Ills, from Indiana with the
Mormons, then leaving them and settling on lands of his own, I have also heard
ay father sgjr , that great Uncle hauled his apple trees with him as he moved from
Indiana and set them out on his lew a farm and thus had fruit before ary one in
the neighborhood.

Uncle David's first wife's name was Tabitha, Sha died, as I understood ths
matter, in Indiana and he married a widow named Mary Lyons. She had two children

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nan* 4 David and Elvira. Di«« mot* 4 Vo fcrth of (UgriprUifi «rt Ui t *» "at loo fax 11/
and Elvira narriod LlMtvrrl Ma*ilngVan Lmgfelln who «u ral**d n*ar tte fara of
Oaelo Vld,

Jraat One la David had ana doftiur by hla aald a* can4 atnU(v, ter ru» «*•

A Ilea. 3 ha «u Ua imm m« of yoar -nr 1* An ter# on, ^ brotter. lllcv llv*d »i
hooa with hor fatter and a»Uar( About 1M7, Norton Tracy, ua olteat aoo of ite
hamrond 1, L, Tracy, Itee of old Nary* *11 la, argagsd Vo aorv unci* urtl'i fara
and vaa not Vh*r* a yaar anlll ha ar-1 A lira narriod* jraaV Oncla Had In
March 1070 and hlo vlfa a fas yaara latar and Phrloa an4 A llca bai|M Vha Internal
in Vha fam of all vha otter hnire and llvad thara anl ralaa 1 i*alr faally of
fan r ehl ldran. Ooa of Vha Vr aona aVlll ilm on ite old fam. Narloe an4 allco
ham raVlmd ».d nam Uva In falrflaLd, »1 Ualr ya-*<*aV laughter lima alVh
Vhaai. Thay am aa f Its p«D pi* aa yo amr nai.

I could Vail you a lot nor* , tut f*ar I a* lotto**,

irmmr Vo ywaUm too. At tte Vina of ■ kich ! aa writing iter* *»• no fall
vhaaV ralaa4 in Iowa or in nr part*, hit t te vteat imd m aprlht utoat| tM •
■aa aaod on Vha aod In Narch or April and nun) in Aly. Yon r mfrl* Clam m
nrtlAf aV ten thw pa rt of Vha tin*, dten i te *M»t tecta rip*, llam anl
fathar toon tte ay tte am era4 la and nt oat la a Me* livvl* patch of th la •teat.
Thoy bo and IV anl aat tv In Vha aunahln* In cautlate aa that IV •oall dry o«V
faat. Fathar Mate Urn flail’* am Cl*** Mate a tori of tKmMfc f L> or of f*nca
rat la and arm ad bod ate* Va vmr Vte Vop of Vha floor tain and ttey I hm* tte
bun’ la* In anl throated IV oot otth tte flatla, Vtea •l*.-c***4 It vlVh a bUte*l

tell ty Vha too of than •* 1 1* ana Vha r U> a tte chaffy •teat an* atom on tte

■nt an am 1*1 It fall am tte •in4 oecaa lotted f mo tte MM|*Ut lona of tte
hi artel canaod a ermt of air rid carr te d tte ruff *ooy am in-* vytnui
It, dSw •* had too or thro* h.atelo of ■•••t "l** •** »*rt te tha *111, an old
•alar ntll abml 6 «tl*a terUi of Nartlnat rg and te bra<( M *■- « tte flour,

Thla fod no until tte mgular Vhmahing 11m* , All tte T> mMig nacMn** ttefs
mm oallad chaff pi lam am tte steal had to bo no through Fanrlrv all la ifl* re¬
ward* . Of ooara* Falter, alii and Cl*** me tad a mm UMa may fro* ho until
they oonld f*t otter laata t m*n op,

m Umd an tte fam Sooth of Nartinatergfc until a boot In. 1*64, Thia fam
•ua aald atxnt Auguot or Sopt. INi, thru yoar unr la fill Van tea, Vo El late

Sodfmy, who aoll hi a fam, tte F*rtla Nllay fam, to your oncla «1U am !

boll#** that at tte t tea tte fam «aa aald ttet fatter t *g‘t tte Land in vu^»
16, Vha Fam an fam, all at tte a am Um aa te got arough far thia 00 to pay for

tte 160 at tte Far* an plnco, o* te • t glm p«Miilo at one* or a* ia« aa tte

Com «*a hnofeod. Fatter routed ite • Ifhty tte Nary :*a*r fam or tte

South, aftomurta bmr aa tte IdQry fam am m nosed item In te*. I***, and
llvod item a y*ar, rnant te bmhlrg oot 40 arma an tte Faraon plaea am build*
iht a lag too**, a log bam am a fro* a* teu— art dlggli* • mil. Ml tte
leg touao and bom. Fatter bought of a Nr, Latum, *te Fm built tte* for blaa* 1/
am hod boor rroapomoa armgh Vo bul Id rwm f ran* hooa* am bam, Locum li ml
about too *11* a North mat of Old Abtrgten, |«m, Tte Spring of 1F<K, Falter aold
ite boat ham* te hid am pat 1703 for ter, Ste *ai ite * iter of old Fan. te

loch tha neruy ha pat far thia aplandid oar* am bought thru* yobu of Cottla.

fNrtht tha aarly Spring of ttet yoar te am bmthar .■*•**. t te tte ter*** and
huu lad tte old log houa* *m turn, aftar butte Muurt^t, Vo tte nr* fam aloe
teg a mil am tell! Vha bte houa* am tew led tiana • rough to sail op tha ** U

am Vha collar alter tte m«t hou*o, % that lino brclhar Am* poor. and l hag

Final tte ground and tool tte g ring steal am cm va and up d* r*a^y for plant-
tut* Thia »a* oil tern «lth Vha call 1* . inter tor plaoi d ■ tth tte tea*tar rati 1*
and X did all vha terras ite e’ drugglte Nth tha light call la. ua than all
planted tha torn and r hangs 4 about, Aiteraon and I unite tha tear, tte only ana

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we had left except the two year old colts, and cultivated the corn. You will
understand that at this tin? there was not a two horse cultivator in that country,
so we plowed the com with single horses, ny sisters often doing the hoeing of the

crops. Father and Jesse took the cattle and broke out the hO acres. They rode

the two year old colts down on the prairie and took their dinners and would brake

all day with the cattle, then turn them out to graze of a night, then as they rode

down next morning pick up the cattle again and drive them to the correll and yoke
them and go to work.

Your grandfather Hooks must have moved to Iowa during the fall of 1865.

That was the first time I saw them. Your uncle Sam was about ny age and he was
the first one I saw. It seems to me they were living then in Martinsburg, but it

was not long before they moved to the Baker place. We were then living on the

old McElroy farm and Sam Hook came to the old school house with your uncle Will's

and Steve’s children. We lived on this rented farm until about November or

December of 1865. That winter I rode all winter back and forth. I kept all of
our cattle up on the old farm where we had lived, and herded them dgjr tines in
the Stalk fields. We had only one milch cow that we moved at that time. This
was about Feb. 1866, just a little while before your uncle Cleve returned from
the War.

The County line farm was sold Sept. I86li and at the same time and as a part
of the same transaction, as I believe, they bought the old Farson farm but did

not move to it until a year later, that is in Nov. or Dec. 1865.

Today is Lincoln's birth day and I remember distinctley when we got the news
of his assassination. We lived at the McElroy' • fanr and we were playing on the
old straw pile when some people care along and told us about it. Nearly all of the
grown ups were crying about it. This first home on the old Farson farm was a
story and a half log house, 2h by 2\x feet with a shed porch to the East, which
was ar. open porch. The house had just one room down stairs and one up stairs.

It was quite primitive. There were no plastered rooms up stairs, but being 2h by
2L feet there was room enough for about six beds, and with one bed down stairs
where our parents slept we had sufficient room. The fact that the house was not
plastered up stairs and had but one window made it possible for all of us to

sleep there and yet suffer no ill effects from the over crowded condition that we

surely would have suffered, had the house been warmly plastered up stairs. This
house was heated by the cook stove with a little cannon soft-coal stove in the
winter season.

The up stairs was reached by a little ladder in the Southwest comer made of
two Fence boards with cletes nailed on where the treads rested and there was a
trap door at the top which, on account of the cold, we kept shut as we went back
and forth in the winter season. We continued to occupy this house until the
summer of 1875, when we built the big souare frame house which you knew. We
built that house the suirer brother John was drowned who up to June 15th of that
year, the date he was drowned, hauled all the lumber therefor and after that time
we all did what we could. I was the oldest home at that time and much of the
hard work of that year fell on me. Your parents were married in this log house
in 1867 and so far as known were just as happy and contented as could be. We
were then, as I have always felt, the most happy and contented family in the
whole country side.

Father and mother continued to occupy this house and farm until the Spring
of 1890. The children, they raised 15 in all, had by this time left home, except
brother Otis, who was then desireous of leaving and father and mother was then
too old to work the farm, besides they had lost sore money feeding cattle, a year
or so previously and were in financial streights. George Dickins had signed some
notes with them at Mowrey's Sank in Ottumwa and they were after the money so they
sold to George at a very low price and removed to Blair, Nebraska where both

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trotter Ml Lila* and I — r* than living. Ttep runained ter*, living In on* of
trotter Million* houses, urtl 1 tte Sprint of 1795, wten trotter Mllll — i*no*id
to Or— no boro, I. C. Ttep tten to two to ek to to—.

Rotter expressed ter —aeon* tte r# for, *that — »r* ivUtni old and I tea
It teat to nova toe* to Redrite Oan Jennie (Tirfirla), Rattla ate %«1» 11—
and tten if va r*t ale* aoaa of tteo ear c «• ate te lp taka ear* of «a." TMa
arfuaent was ao tote to — that I oca Id not ask tteo to raooln ter*, aa iqr * If*,
y oar *«m Kilo, ted boor 111 n»*rl7 •*» vteU tin* they 11 — 1 n*ar a a.

■cu aa to tte hoaaa on tte ol* faro Sooth of Rart l— tnrg*i. Did not cateh
pau r —a at Ion $ or would te— a— — A in tte proper place. TMa hoaaa «u boilt
in Ite fall of 1®<6, Fraaont wi rep.*:m for 7— aidant. That la h am I aa

halped to — — >*r tte data.

Too mat know that tteaa **▼» — r* tnfora tte ra or* a railroad* In that
country ate all tte pin* la ate r had to to f— Ighted fro n Rlaalaalppl rl — r point*,
and aa all tte *etlUr* — r* poor, tte balHlr^i nr* conot— ctel of l«c* or aa— d
toarda aada fraa 1 or* and a a— * In laral aao allU all of • Irh — — tteo —tar
po— r nllla. Tte hoaao fatter tn Lit on that fir at place in tte mmm r ate fall of
1036, aa a a f raw rttetora, abmt 70 by 71. faat aim a partition rwriiki through
It fron Berm to South aboat — n faat frn tte aoat —11 which eat off a roan
about 7 bp 70 faat. a* had thru* bate lo ter* u« of iv« ate on ate ate arm
— ti Inc lf» otter *«y adca J«*t laft roan *r— 14I1 for «• to pi in ate out of bad.
Thara — ra nal la dr l — n m tte valla, nr part Itlo— , all tla« to hanc nr alotte
upon. Tte 1 arger roan costalnte arm bad with a inpil* bad manvali It. no,

•1th aona of no llttla ana a aloppinc at tte foot, — had — •*»%!*.

Thu h— —a ballt of g—*o nan aid Mr* 17, tte fra— a •— *1 ant aa alaa
— ra tte Jolce, mf tar* ate plain*. Tte atad* an* M*ats*r boarding* — r* **— A
ate ab— l 1 bp aU Inc tea. It all fitted prottp ll|M tte fl — t yaar bat after

tte flrat • j— r tte latar — rpad and *a* —It* span. Tte r* worn a *al la d »»*d

or loan to affair on th* Sooth, which aa* .*• * aa a kltcten te 'Inin# ram. Tt
aao about 10 bp 74 f— l and —a big arougfc In after paara to pr— tte for a bad,
bnt hiring tte flrat paara nathar —rapt* d thla — «!lli har In— d*n ate wo—
vanapnn anol and flak nffUUrl to cloth aa all an* *ah* — r bedding. * te not
onlp did tte —ovine* bat ate eaeLd card, opln ate 7* tte — terlal ant tten rut
ate — ka It op, aa — r datMm If tet — ry ft— a** (—1 an* r — tortetle. tte

after dolnc all of thla natter *1— p* had a — al far a ira— Ur nr a —If tear ate

ate aa* a — nderfhl took , aa •— rp pm ■*» fad — ter bounty c— Id toatlfp.

Mb 11 — d In thla tea *a tte flr*t ataiar, !•<*, *Mch *aa a aa — — • inter.

Tte h— aa *aa «l thout pi a* ter ate — ted no ate— aarapt an aid br—an bacl*d
cook ato— , aa* of tte flrat aa* an* tte flrat natter *■! • — r *** *, R *t of tte
eoafclng «p te that 1 1— had boon v— a— r tte f Ira p late, te had a fl— plaoa
in tte uaat and of thla tea—. It «** built of * tone an tte out aid* of th* build,

ing and It kept fatter, Clev* and Mill boap no*t of tte Uaa tte flrat winter knap*

Irp enough — od on hand to —a »* bat »*n u* van It c nil not -*#. Our euff*r rg*
that *4 ntar — — gr**t bat — — — all tealUqr and *tr*>ni ate *oan forgot It.

Tear brother valla— and X vlalteg tte *ca— • of thla aid tea plaoa laat
August tet could not find a ***tiga of tte bo— a. orchard, t— aa, —11 or anything
laft. Thla fa— a* a occur l* 1, vten vacated bp aa, bp I1M re lotfrvp Rocklin ate
ttep *oaai sold It to Dr. iterp of RartlroburgP , who acoa pled It until about 1770
vh*r. te Bold It to Ad— ?wl tsar, who— f— lip rtlil asm It.

If pou will near* thla long ar * ran* ling Uttar I *111 it-f ate aap pou a—

a fin* felloe. Toe Anna itet I will not be prv — rt vten pwv te— f in 1* had —telng
tMa and tte* will —rape pou r wrath at laaat for tte tin* b*lrg,

I wrote Carr la uelob ar* *am ter pour laat latter but ha— net tear* fr—
ter *lnr*.

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If there is ary thing more I can do to help you let me know.
With regards to all your family will close.

Your uncle.

I. C. Eller

The following letter, written by
amplifies his next above letter.

Israel Curtis Eller ,

on li July 1923,

Blair, July Uth, 1923

Mr. W. A. Hook.
Rolls, Missouri

^y dear Nephew:

Yours of the 12th June requesting more historical data of the Eller- Ho ok
family and especially as to the early life of your father and mother, was recei’.'ed
in due time and after thinking the matter over for sore time and having a little
time during the National Holid^r thought I could no better improve it than in
writing to you.

I am sending you a little plot of Competine Township particularly as it was
in the late fifties and early sixties when we lived there. You will note ny
father's old home was the W5 N. E. \ Sec. 5, the Mary Baker farm lying Just across
the half section line road, she at that time owning the N; Sec. 5. Her hus¬
band, William Baker died in the war of the Rebellion and they had to sell off the
west part of it, 38 acres I think, which was bought by the Powells. The next farm
west in the NS; Sec. 6 was owned by Uncle Johnny Hagan. The Fuller or old
Chillicothe School House stood in the southeast comer of the Hagan tract and
almost opposite the Fuller house. The Fuller land was afterwards bought ty Jake
Handkajirser. (See map in the book "James Hook and Virginia Eller" 1925, p. 22.)

This old school house ceased to be used for school purposes about 1866 or
1867. It was built of Oak Lumber sawed at the old water saw mill over on Skunk
River and was as cold as a bam. It was here your mother got all her schooling
except what she received later at Axlines Academy in Fairfield.

After coming to Iowa in 1352, father rented farms for about two or three
years around his Uncle David Eller's farm southeast of Brookville, Jefferson
County. It is said that both ny9®!!* sister Mattie were bom down there on a
farm rented from a woman he called Mrs. Emil. The spring of 1656, or late fall
of 1655, father mcsred to a farm owned by a woman named Agnes Davis who lived north
of Ottumwa near the present station of Rutledge. He lived there until the fall of
1656. The reason I remember this is that I recall, when we lived there, of many
people passing in wagons and singing, "We're a band for Fremont, We're a band for
Fremont, We're a band from Fremont and we'll sound it through the land".

When we moved upon the farm in Sec. 5 late in 1556, it was cold and we had no
house to move to, though father had spent nulte a bit of time previously in getting
out his timber and lumber for a new house. We first moved into the old Chillicothe
School house where we lived while dad built the old house on that farm. He built
it of rather newly sawed green oak lumber with split oak shingles and barely got
it enclosed, when we moved in about Christmas. That was the coldest winter ever
experienced in that country and we almost froze to death. Try as hard as he could
he and Will and CLeve could not keep us in fuel which they had to haul from Skunk
River Timber about 6 miles away. We had no heating stove but had a big, high,
wide, consuming fire-place built from Skunk River limestone. The weather boarding
did not fit snug and as it began to season it warped so badly that one could see

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daylight thr\jugh tna ua.La and roof «l ur^ placus »rv t *» i:.% >il trifle; In,

X wwn r t Mj particularly wall aa «gr brothar J«im, aiater fettla »&i X h*l an
ahoaa, and whan ua got coll, aothar would pvt « oa i faalhar bul wrera ua would
play until mm got want, Tha HaaVar b ya vara aoraa off than wa *«ra( They would
haat a abort plaea of loard tha; could carry and than taka tbalr to<a and go
rabbit tenting for food. bhan thalr faat fot cold thuy would lay tha board lawn
and atari oa It -it Ll l *»1 r faat aara atra and than fo on aa bafora.

Fathar hod c or t racial for tMi SO a era fara f mm a ma naaa 1 J . C. Hu* Ulan
who llwod in Fgrflaid hod mV ua tuymar*. on it. ha brofca a llttla prulrla

on it tha luaor ua llaad north of Ottawa and to had f round raa*y to aou a littla
•*aat tha nart aprlng ard to pl«nl acua corn and v brefca out nora tha n* it yaar
and rviood a fino lot of lal corn awl oar ana at c w>« or fina an: aaa good. I
raw aba r thla a a wa hoi to 11 «a on oom braal ant ll ua ralaai our whaal.

Tha winter of 1*?7 and • ua a naarly aa bai aa l*a fbrar yaar. Ui*»r had a
nlea llttla atari In cattla and ahan tha da flatter to awrything roa In 1*0, ha
ouud a atora bill at 3aiongag», (don't know 1 1 X trail thla iwu rlr*>t' anl tha
nan, X Kata for got tar hla ruaa, pvt It into Vgaftl and hod an awcutiar iaaaod
and tha oorotobla, (Jin tealpo), rua and *ir«a off c*»ry oaa of our cattla,
aacart ana, ovr ol* nllh cow, aaa awogl or ha a <al* Hava takan it. I

raraatar It wall. Fal*ar uu at tha t abac for wood an4 bill and tlaaa wan* •

Inc »4 t*u ot*»-a in achool uni I naatar hou arthar grind, and a’y would ah*

not cry ibafl you thing of har awrn*-n4l*vro, aith a 'am ly rf nm or tor children,
nora yat inan and all ouf faring froo coll uni ht^ar, Vna tut tha • *. «-te»l
haort could ha* a mr ^r* 1 It. It uuaa aa cry » • baa X rwcall It.

Tha fl rat teacher X r*a**t*r aha taught In that old achool Nmm aaa a w

Mtal Mean Hollar, a to aaa fell lod by hla noraa • •jrtly '.hereafter. Tha naat
win tar, billion bottorff, u bnathar of a*tfe iotterff an* t*» wet aintar Xauac
jurnait taught. Tha naat aintar T>«aaae Arnold a prwaehar, th* nan brother Ton
uua naaaa 1 for, thoo J in aa»gh lu« winter*, aft mr **Wh in !•'*. a • m- b- ruaa of
haggle Falllaai taught. Tha »w r arn jol aaa tougbl f 1 rat tgr hwia begun, than
Lcvanla fearrt V", than Rery Hi lay than Aranda Oaarturf ant V*i Jar la ll llott .

In tha arnur of IFhi fathar aold tM plane t**r» to lll*hu iaifray, • •wee
fern, -the old Farrll hllay plaea, year l*w la «l lllar had bought. Your nr la
bllllee hod gold Ida farm about 1*6), tha Alai Vnll Flora, Vo o ran nawd Jaat
Hodar, Fathar thao bought f run par grantf a*, ■•r K> a i*a far* Ian In a<, 16,
nou known oa tha Foraor form. Thla aaa oil prairla lord or • no fenu or fence
cl oaa r than tha Jam Neftlllon fora Vo tha aoat. Tho f l rat yaar ha rented tha f aim
rar%ad tha Qrarga Qoldoby fam *hUI 1 laa *»• t aoat froa tha old CM 1 ll e at ha
Vhool hovoa or* ua x>n-« than* In t mar. Thu naat yaar, 1*6*, ua famed that
plocu and tha for Dt nan ra forty, irothar A me rue a r* t ur v* tha cam i»i
Fathar and Unrb J*tr u*rt * w to tha haw p Lara aarfe *v am bro*« prairla or
♦Id othar *i»t tharm ao aa wool4 haw a plum to rrwa th* raid yaar. Thwy aaad
thru* yoba of cattla for brofelrg tha aod am lhay rode tha colt# l*ere aoch day
and uovld tarn tha cattla Vo gr aaa daring tha night. Thla yaar brmlhar bill
returned f n* tha *ir *a#l **.»••, t* . re* • ' r>r ‘dr »•*» *r t>-*t *ewer.

irothar Claaa hod not relumed from tha war. m aarral in tha *U» !u» Co*olry

Out did not ehliat am ll tha a. ana r of 1*6), and hie anllatwnt balrg for throa
yooro or dvrlrg Ua ear ha woo feupt for guard duty until Toby 1*66. irothar
billion F. anlloted tuioo| Fleet, In th* Iowa Xnfontry (16th) and after wr»if4
about t north* auo h e* roily ‘lochorgal for (loot 11 lilac race l**1, ha hod tha
■aooloc which eetlled In tha right aya and ha aoo Hind for a llna. ha naat

orvliatad in If 4V, in the loot 100 day call In tha |<ih ! *• Infantry am later

aaa h curably d|acharg»d. •'Hh anllatad aa pr1*ete*.

After fathar had aooulrud tha land* in See. 16 frm year 3 rand fathar Horn,
wh« hod bought It be fora aa achool land, your grundfothar Haoh undo a trip Vo

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Iowa and your Uncle William who had bargained for the Baker farm sold your grand¬
father the Jim 3aker 80 which adjoined the R. T. 3aker 80, the latter being the
farm your father bought of Billy Payne, and he kept the Rollen T. Baker 80, and
sold the old Godfrey place to a nan named Haynes. He must have bought the Baker
place in I86L1, because the sunner of 1665, Rollen T. Baker lived at the old house
on the forty where the Deuser school house is located, but in the S. E. Comer
thereof, when we lived on the old Goldsby place, afterwards known as the McElrqy
place.

Now, I will say here that Rollen T. Baker was then an old man. William
Baker who was killed in the war and who was the father of Newt, Frank and Wallie,
was his son. Jim Baker also was Rollen' s son. George Goldsby, who was also
killed in the war was his son-in-law and Sauire Graft was also a son-in-law then
he had several other girls, one Hester, who married about that time one Dan Still¬
well, then Polly who afterwards Married Chris Breon and another, Delilah, who
married Bob Black.

Your Grandfather Hook moved with his family to Iowa in the rammer or fall of
1665 and the first time I saw your father was about Jan. 1666. He came with the
Baker girls and the Black girls to Singing School. I distinctly remember of
becoming acauainted with your Uncle Sr in the early fall of 1665. He came over
to the old school house with your Uncle Will's children to a little Sunday School
father was conducting in the old school house.

Your Grandfather and your Uncle William shortly after buying out the Bakers,
bought the quarter of prairie land lying Just north of the prairie land lying
Just north of the Bakers, your Uncle Will taking the east 80 and your Grandfather
the west 80, Just acroes the road from the old Jim Baker house. Jess Ankro*
lived for a time in the old Jim Baker house, but by the time your pa married, Jess

had secured a lease on the Welmer 80 and -cared into a little house he had built

thereon and your father and mother when they married went to housekeeping in the
Jim Baker house and your sister Mary was bom there, in summer of 1868 and I am
not sure but John was born there also. I know that Or in, yourself and I think
Sadie were bom on the Welmer 60, the lease of which your father had bought of
your Uncle Jess Ankrom.

Your father was a f sr seeing farmer. He did his work well, using good
Judgment in sll things. He was a great hand with hogs and always had a nice bunch

on hand and matured them fast. He kept a hired man and kept to a purpose as also

did ywr mother and they got right along so that when his lease expired about
1°7< or 1876, your father bought your Grandfather Hook's place. Your Uncle William
did not live long on the Baker farm but about 1669 to 1870 he sold it to a man
named John Herald, who lived there a short tins and resold it to William and
Thomas P^jrne. Tom died and Billy could not handle it so he afterwards sold It to
your father.

I was glad to hear that your cousin Cynthia was still living. She, Nan and
Lincoln used to go to school with your Aunt Hattie and me and the folks always
tormented me about her. Give her ry regards.

We are having good rains here and will have good crops again.

I hope you will excuse this and the spelling and composition as well, for
w^en I start to write I often make grammatical errors that I am not conscious of.

If I can do anything more for you, let me know.

Wishing y«J every success in the family history, will close.

Your uncle,

I. Curtis Eller

Note ty J.W.H. - There are a few slight errors in the land sales mentioned in the
above letter Cut on the whole it is a remarkable example of good mmaory on the
part of the writer.

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Tim folUolng account of '.•» ’ronlni, cr It Jan* IMS, of John v-lncy L.Ur',
{•Umy , Sumoer* , Mib^, Hur^, Vaorga IcNmIM eat glmn xrj k.;j 6P9i*»r,
laroal Cortl • Li lar6 la a Uttar to HU naphrv, •'aoi Killian KocO , UU'. JcUtor
19)6. fUa II Ur Faallp I!!!, p. 1M.)

Oriohar 1«\6

"9 tear Uphrai

Coopatla* Croon In Caopotloa r.uwUr, ^v*U« County, Ian, floaa f ran «. K.
to S. 1., h**i^ Ita • wren >1 a e root ita coontp linn In Loco a Coootp | a half
alia norm of Um «. a. eorrwr of aactfton 6 Mil tovmhlp, and '.oaa than a mU
aaat f ran tha proaort ton of Inna, at* It flow •ubnrl«r cm* a Iai th* count/
lino at or nanr tha «. a. earner K to wwy IU»NVu»r 00 in Sac. t, ini
•oollnaea olnoat oaat to a Sanction allh tha Mortlnoburfh ftranoh Unroof, atowt
10 rota aaat and 16 rat aoolh of Uo I. I. norm r of Uo anl * lll»r*VrUJ*r 0O|
thanra aoathaaaierlp to un ■. L. oo mar of tha KlUlan loot 00, anl on In tha
• n« conroa to naar tha I, B. comar of aald teanaMp atom It ootaip Jaffartoo
Coar.tjr anl comma# to Un anna «o*m for a fan allao ontll It mala ml Hm
Into tha Ml Co*or ram, a ItttU aaat of Uo ha tar I a rood, ran Un not in
>»1 f l*hO mt** anl «*#wner«« to ■. •» r Salmi, 'nUrt,

For tha flrat thrao or fear nlUa of Ita vooroa V*an •»» ItttU or AO
tiacar or hmoh a* irt inr tht a cm*o, tmo i*an flmt « «t»»n aorron atrip* of
hraah or tutor on aithar aim for a fan nilaa mi* tmn U» * m U co.- ’.ry-a i ta
ana marl If Uacara*. original!/.

Fat ‘ar act* tha ah am 0Wn tract In Laotian < In thn Uu n rnmmr or fall

of 1041. or rathar tram I it to tfllllna tafe, Motor of .n>« MmO, ate of tor*

norm aortal TirfUla LiUr, taa * I OP— ML JfaO MM Of land U MtlOl lA,

morn to loan of Far nan la nan local**, nhfcch ana than aaat top tm fnthar of
■I a< .«** . a. a Villon Ih4 OO If hU to U U-* anno HCUa < «|th auro
to jama he* dor, and in aoi<o tm tranoforo at UU Um rn father Oaa t»i UU
00 to Allao a tf rwj aian in Ur* Oaa to I hU 00 ha log t*a faml Mlcj 00 to allllaa
haah, and allllaa Mom Una for hi* fat har m»|M Un Jan* a Mar far* and am
04)oird’v UnOi.

Tha LI Ur fanil/ did oat nan an to tm Faman fan mill tin Uu foil of
1664, tmp honing raaui and aooopUd un *u**ro f am a^alMM tha t«ry Soar
f am oo tha a oath, fm Far aon f«m ana in tha hid frairl* a alia fra ap
raahiaooo, and ha* to ho ioproood ho for* mid ho omfM«

*^r alatar Patti* and ha rga a. toaaa a*ra ear*’** |n March UP 7*, and Uap

liohd JA of a alU aaat of Oor Ian, That mo poor oo t«i

haoaa that aU 11 atom oo tha Itrn* form. hraUor John di* nil Uo ho *U« fran
tm narhela of tm MillSi« mtarlol dUh hapt hio d«iu fall/ oroaflad drug
tm plant log aaoo «n» hot at tlnaa of rain an* hod mom ■ *lch no nM* framrl
that tprlng Mi tlna ai anrlomd In hmaatm op a ana proirla land w Mod Uooad
for »• folUatng poor, oil* *r**lf on* tm poonror brotharo lcd»* of tar tm
r u-l lm ar * r lu»iur< af tm prorl r* tr^ta.

It ralmi ml to hard tha not of tm r UM of Jhoo XL of that poor an* oo
fam or mod «rr% awn Id ho dona tm mat *ap *m»i I u Ira «u a N* • John

taco Ma toon and tad tm paoper o Mid ran ond Ualr U«mr, Klaa LI U Arfan-

hrtdht, to oohool, than f ran thorn m •»**t to ol * harp#*:..* tc mm Ma hmoh I hi
plma aharrooad, o'M la mltag Ma Uo at tm mlUp, m and aamml athara,

■am ooilad hp Ua mad rmraaar to ml# hi* mm Ua m<r|* fro* tha top of

uo hrldga oor Goopotiio tho MnJ, fholpo and Up Joooo Stott

fam*. 7>a rnlr of Ua peoalon* Mgbt fea* ca.nl a graat aaarfl • af tha Cm*

Croat am tm aatar, ohar. It U«*r to nc*h Uft mt; 1 p •, tm*a and hraah on
trn hr I *#•, p»d Uam vaa Ua'.MC darpar of tm p||M OfuMo Ua rl'r.

A* tha nor roll# d and |«K*1 tm maap log# off tha hrldga tm *«n ha log
naar mmUtiao, Jane a Uohr, ma of John'* r* «m», »og*i oo o f th**e Urga

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logs and went floating down strean. Then another larger and nore crooked log was
pushed off on the lower side of the bridge and as they did so, one man said, "I
dare anyone to ride this log." This was no sooner said then John Jumped astride
it and floated down the stream. He was dressed in his overalls and barefooted.

He rode the log perhaps a fourth of a mile, when it struck an edcjy caused by the
current meeting the current of another branch, causing the crooked log to lunge
and turn, which dislodged John who could not swim and there was no one there to
save him. He was 17 years old. The news went forth and the whole country-side
cane to the place of the tragedy. Upon beiiv inf armed at our hone thlle at the
dinner table, I hurriedly hitched a tear, to a lumber wagon and took father and
mother and little Otis to the scene of the accident. Men were there on rafts,
using pike -pole a and grappling hooks, but the bo^r was not found until about four
hours after I arrived, and at a point nearly a mile from where the drowning took
place.

The remains were placed In my wagon and one or two neighbors accompanying us

we took the body home. The weather was very warm. There was no ice in the

country and there was no undertaker or funeral hone; so the boss carpenter, who
was building our house, made a big, strong, rough wooden box and the body was

placed there in, and we drew oold water from the well, poured it over the body,

changing the water frequently day and night, keeping the body covered, until the
funeral and ourlal. The new house was enclosed, but the floors had not been laid
and the body “*» kept there so that the changing of the water soiled nothing.

Now, Will, as I Intend this particular information for you, I have given you
the facts regarding the accident and the scene thereof because I believe few if
any of the younger kin ever heard the story of the drowning.

I have another little incident in mind concerning this unhappy event, which
I have always kept clearly to iqraelf . I do not believe I am any more supersti¬
tious than the average person, yet this thing which I am about to here tell of,
may be called by you what you please to call It, but it has had a great influence
on ry life, as It Is not alone the only one but I have had many and different
kinds cf dremas along other lines during nr life that have co«f>letely come true.

On the Saturday night before this sad accident, as was our usual custom we
had our supper then did the milking and choree and then to bed. But on this
Saturday night as we finished at the bam, John said, "Well let's go to the house
and go to bed”; I answered that I had been working my team hard all that week and
that I had concluded to curry and rub them down before retiring. When I had
finished this I went to the house, took a bath at the tub at the well, and aa all
had gore to bed aa I thought, I made no light. John and I occupied the same bed,
I sleeping in the front. It was warm, I was tired and I laid down on the front
side. I was absolutely sure that John was in his place; the oed was large and
our bodies did not touch. I immediately dropped off to sleep and knew nothing
mare until about 2 o'clock the next morning when I was awakened by a vary vivid
dream which was that I had seen a great and all powerful hand and arm break its
way through the roof and celling immediately over me, and this great hand had
John by the shoulders and took him bodily through the roof and I thought that I
had hold of him trying to save him but my strength was nothing compared to this
all powerful arm. Just at this instant I awoke and threw out aqr arm and there
was no John the re . Then I let out a yall that awakened the whole household.

When I told them of my dream, my mother called to me that after coming to the
house that night John had changed his mind and had gone to spend the night with
sister Mattie, assuring me that everything was all right.

When John cane heme the next day and heard of this Incident he, with all the
family, including the workmen, Joked and guyed me about the nightmare, and they
kept it up until the day of the drowning, but slrre then, they or no other person
has ever mentioned it to me.

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Bow, 411, 701 or iow of Uw other* wl fin t ocloatlfU ocplonolloa of
li» Hortlac of id* hi mi olod. I dm r»»tr nuoi il bol how lieu|M 11

cum oarter Id* candltloa of al*1 »i by the pool '^oUi »»»ru cool

iholr idotow before . .

Towo imlj,

X. C. 1 lUr,

Though JTOU 17 1M Uil «M • IfMR,

^ foe to or* palpable forlo to m,

For Ihe iliM gram floor »h*a Molt irum m*r
Ifti loot* tffto fotorliy.*

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THE CHRISTIAN ELLER FAMILY
of Rowan Co., N. C.

and hi.9 descendants in Grayson Co., Virginia
and in Monroe and Lawrence Counties, Indiana.

FAMILY I

CHRISTIAN ELLER^, d. 100b in Rowan Co., N. C. He came to America from
Germany on the ship "Restauration" and took his oath of allegiance to the province
of Pennsylvania, 9 Oct. 17L7. He moved south to the Yadkin River section of
Rowan County, North Carolina where he purchased land 20 May 1762. Paul Beefle,
wife Catherine, of Rowan Co. in his will dated 15 Dec. 176b, mentions Christian
Eller as one of his sons-in-law. Jacob Eller and Melker Eller also purchased land
on the Yadkin River in Rowan Co. in 1762 and 176b respectively and probably were
brothers of Christian. Michael Eller, shown in the tax list of Rowan Co. in 1759
may also have been a near relative.

The will of Christian Eller^ was written 30 April 180b and proved in the
Rowan Co. court at its May session following. The following children were men¬
tioned,

(1) John Eller . He wrote his will 10 April 1820. It was probated in the May
Court following. It mentioned his wife Margaret who apparently had
deserted him, but mentioned no children, and gave his plantation to John
Eller, son of his sister Susannah and her husband John Eller. He also
provided well for one Caty Thlles and gave contingently a legacy of 25
dollars to John Eller, son of John Melcher Eller.

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(?) George Eller . He doubtless was the George Eller who married Christens

(Christens Yost according to family records), and about 178b renoved to
that part of Montgomery Co., Va. that in 1790 became Wyeth Co. and in 1792
Grayson Co. See Family II below for children.

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(3) Henry Eller . Probably the Henry Eller who died a wealthy man in Wythe Co.,
Va. between 19 May 1038 when his will was written and 11 Feb. 1839 when it
was proved. (Wythe Co., Va. Will Book 5, p. 19b.) His will mentioned his
wife Jane to whom, he gave his 16 negro slaves and half of his land and use
of the other half for two years after his death. "All other negroes not
otherwise disposed of" to be sold along with other property and certain
designated sums given to "ay brother Frederick Eller, Henry Eller son of
George Ellei; my nephew, Polly Painter, wife of Alexander Painter, and
Margaret and Rachel Eller, daughter of Frederick Eller." Residue of his
estate was to go to his wife Jane Eller. When the will was proved, 11 Feb.
1039, James T. Cleaves, one of the executors, refused to Qualify and
"thereupon on motion of Alfred C. Moore the other executor named in said
will who took the oath reouired by law and together with Jacob Haller,

E. W. Lockett, Abner Thompson, Gustavus A. Crockett, Jsaac Painter and
Calvin M. Nuckolls his securities entered into and acknowledged a bond in
the penalty or $30,000.00 conditioned as the law directs, certificate is
granted him for obtaining probate of said will in due form," Very
obviously Henry and Jane Eller had no children,

(b) Frederick Eller^, bom about 1765; died after 19 May 1838. He married, in
1795, Margaret Long. (Grayson Co., Va. Marriages.) The 1820 census of
Grayson Co, shows hi* aged over b5 with wife aged between 26 and b5 years
and with a family of seven males and four females, the eldest aged between
18 and 26. The 18 30 census shows him aged between 60 and 70 with a family
of two males and one female, the eldest aged between 15 and 20. He is not
shown in any later census.

Th# villa of hi* troth* r Kerry £llor‘ of aywth Co. , T*. end of hi*
dODfhtor hoc hoi tiler-' of 5#pth Co. , To. oho* that he ora4 Henry werw
ore thoro and Uni hebl «u '«|M*r and lopUor with Qroyooa Co.,

To. otrrl*(« record# ihon 1*41 th# follow :n* w»f* hi* . (Fredertrt '#),
chi ldrwn.

(1) Kllaeteth IlUr , a. 17 j*C. 1010, DoMel JXUr. < >r*y*:r Co., To.

Karri of* *. ' .

(2) fnhrUi IU*r , prohot ly o ao*. M* a. 17 Xn* U??, KUtatoth Flore*.

(jnjraoa Co., To. Karri *c* a.)

O) Catherine IlUr*, a., 16 how. I*?), Re leer *jnwr, Oyaoa Co., To.

Norrlofoa. )

U) 3a«rf* Kllar. *, 12 Ray 1M1. Mill# Una. (Orayaa* Co., To. Rar-
rl of**. ) H»r raw ww fltwn ao U1 If In 3mywon Co. hood *ul 7)

Hr* . ‘. 'hoot 8. p. 1«D IWif «hl. — r.

(1) Charlotte filer*, n. 7f 6 of. 1660, Million 2. AohUy. ( ray eon
Co., RorMofwa.)

(}) Jam* 111* r*. h. U4)| 4. 11 Jhiy IV*. ofol 21. Orayeon Co.,

To. ■wot* p»W ••irh yew* the now of hi* (orenU mtf hi*

OfO 01 tooth.

O) J *'••«>* Ol*r, t. lUi v U •»n V't, Jao* t. i§‘ )•

f Vwyoon Co., To. Rarrlofw* ritl *on oi«* of brtn* air croon.)
(1) Heavy lllor*. NioUaood in Ido (rod waoio Henry flUr'*' will.
(<) wet lay a. 1 il»r , t. 1X*| proa, oe flret elf*, 7i 'opt. 1*70,
9. A. her**, b. 1647. ( .my eon Co., To. Rarri*#** which row*

thw MOOI of hi* porento, * lno the of* * of ft* m ml on Ac.)

Ho t, ftiai 16 Ooi, 1177, lord Hood, 0. IB* . -npoon 0H*S
To. Horn ofw§ which rooordod to. a. tl Ur, 040 >0, oon of
~or*w orr RiUlo flier, *. 16 Cot. 1670, So ran h*od. o«* 77.*)

(6) Cloah IlUr*, 0. 16M» n. 0 Apr. 1066, Jaee Cnrrwf., 0. 1662.

(IrajrMO Co,, To. Karrlore# »*JcA if* r^aae* of hie parent#

or.* If* of* e of the croon m* onto.)

(7) Kortr.o E 1 Ur-, pratatly o to.pt*r, •., 74 ta«, 1601. Rawtoroon

Idwort*. (3royoon &»., •'*. HarrUfwo. Torenta and o<*( oo(

(9) Chnotopher fl Ur, 0. 16 Ray l‘)0, a worm |%or*a. (iraytao Co., To.

Harrier**. )

(6) Tolly flUr', a. , 2* Vrt. 10)1, UaMnhr Hlaur, (Irayaofi Co. , T*.

Horrl OfO a.)

(7) John flUr'. flbf If Crt. lM0o Rarthn Looth, b. 104*. < >ray-

non Co., To, Rarrlafw* which r*aoaAa4 bin o* *r*4 00 are4 too 00*1 of
Trotorich on* Harry flUr orv* moor A* 4 M* w if* oe Rartha Uoth, of*
n , 4 a*. Of JpM .«*•►.

(§) Rarvorat Kllor , ae*Uao»4 In her wn-U Ranry ilUr'o will.

(T) Rachel lllor', Her will t*t#T 11 Oct. l^;<, «*i|of*1 • I alar* felly

Pointer on-4 Catherine byoer arc* tr .-them herf*. Tohr oM Chrlotopher,
a loo far tnrla ailllan Lone of ray a on Co., To. **» hflpulH hp
friend 2. Kite boll* ao aanUf. altne eaoo w»r# *illl«o w. \«rii
are4 Million F. Kltcboll. Rachel AlUr woe 0 ho. tor of hThrUfe

11 lor' 0 ollor children, (hayth Co., To. will#.)

(9) 4-aorne lllor*. ColUi *4owr*tor %*onr* A l Ur* In her fether'o will,

AceorilAf to the will of her brother John ohe worried Johr Eller. «t4a 1*
eon/ 1 me 1 by tho Rowan Co. , I. C. worrier* r.f«rh which ohow that feoanno
tl Ur narrlod John filar on t Oct. 1762.

(M Harr tl Ur . Celled * daw a* ter «Urt Wot tinker* lo her fether'o will. Ho

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further record found.

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(7) 3arbara Eller . Called "daughter Barbara Hess" In her father's will. No
further record found.

FAMILT II

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GEORGE ELLER , (Christian ), bom, say about 1752; d. 25 Dec. 1008 in Grayson
Co., Va. He married one Christena as shown in the Rowan Co. court records of 1778,
1779, 1783 and 178b and in the Grayson Co., Va. land records of 1800 and 1802 as
shewn below.

A thirty eight page "History of the Eller Family" by J. W. Eller, published
in 1918 says that George Eller married Christena Tost, and that she died at her
son John's home in Monroe Co., Indiana, after 1833* It also says that he served
seven years as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that he died on Christmas
Day in 1800. This writer has not been able to find a Revolutionary War record
for George Eller and if one exists doubts that it would show seven years of
service. He is said to have been an itinerant preacher and to have moved into
Virginia because of what he thought was persecution by the courts for his refusal
to renounce an oath of fealty he had once made to the English Crown. He was
warranted 100 acres of land by the commonwealth of Virginia, 8 May 1783 for which
a grant was issued 29 July 1796. (Va. Treas. Warrant I6O6J1.) This land was
located on Elk Creek in that part of Montgomery Co, that in 1790 became Wyeth and
in 1793 Grayson. He acquired additional land later as recorded deeds in Grayson
Co. show. One farm of 150 acres was purchased oy hi* from Henry and Caty Town¬
send, 21 Sept. 17R7. (Deed Book 1, p. I6ii, Grayson Co., Va. ) He sold this land
to Mlcajah Stone, 26 Aug. 1800. (Deed Book 1, p. 337, Grayson Co.) This, ap¬
parently, left him owning only 100 acres but on 22 Mch. 1802 he and his wife
Christena, sold two parcels of land, containing in all liOO acres, to Martin Dick¬
inson. One parcel containing 300 acres was on the waters of Elk Creek. The
second parcel adjoining the first and containing 100 acres was the land apparently
that had been granted to hi* by the State of Virginia, 29 July 1796. (Deed Book
1, p. L55, Qrayson Co.) When and from whom George and Christena Eller acouired
this additional 300 acres was not found in the records. George Eller signed this
deed as George Eller Sr. and name* his wife as Christena.

Neither George Eller? nor his wife Christena left a will but "A History of
The Eller Family" by J. W. Eller, published in 1Q18, gives them two children,
n-usely, George and John. The Federal Census of Lawrence Co., Indiana for 18 50
shows a family of Christian Eller^. Lawrence County adjoins Monroe Co., Indiana
where John Eller^, a known son of George'5 and Christena Eller lived. Very likely
there were other children, one probably being Andrew Eller^.

(1) Christian Eller*, (George*, Christian*1 * * * * 6), probably a son of George and

Christena Eller, bom about 1780. He is listed in the 181»0 federal census
of Lawrence Co., Ind. as Christian Etter (sic) aged between 50 and 60 years
with a family of two males and two females living with him, the eldest, a
female, aged between 20-30. The census of 1850 lists Christian Eller* (sic)
born in Virginia, aged 70 and living with him a family of two males and
two females as shown below. Other families listed in the census records of
Lawrence Co. suggest a child named Rufus*.

(1) Rufus Eller1, shewn in the 1850 and i860 census of Lawrence Co., Ind.,

aged 30 and 50, respectively (sic) born in Va., with wife Marion,

aged 36 and L6 respectively, born in Ky., and with children, (1)

Malvina^, b. about 1836; (2) John', b. about 1838; (3) Mary^, b.

about I8I1L; (ti) Paris'", b. about I8ii6 ; (5) Lucinda, b. about 18JU8 j

(6) Stephen^, b. about 1850; (7) Milton^, b. about 18^L« All child¬
ren bom In Indiana.

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(2) NtllnU IU«r , b. la **» 1 60 la 1B9.

(3) Stephen UUr^, shown la the 1650 *ft? 1660 canoe a of -owrsncv Co.,
la h., i|H 26 and J9 respectively with wlfo llssoor bora la

, , apod 26 la 1660 oad with children la 1660 as follows, (1) J. F,
la aped 6| (2) T. E. ElUr?, aped 6 and <)) KUutaUi
ElUr', opvd * no. All children bora la Indiana,

(6) El ala ElUr*. Mb, b. la In4., »|* * || la 1650. prob. a grander
(5) Java Ellor^, b. la Iw»., aged 13 la 1650. prob. a grandchild.

El Ur*.

Ella r .*r. , (Ontp1! Christian*), bom la Vlrclal* H
to *A Nji^nr of r tally* by • w»* cslUl Us *e Ideal

child of Qoorva ElUr* aad Christens Tost. Tbs sane scarce asye he hsd
1M1 la Isatocky ^ara bo bod Mill* * t- IB1«, tie l was Polly
trm f» aarrlod la Tlrglnla. TSrjr fa* »l|H children as fol

(1) bsnry ElUv*, foiwtw* to korfV! Co., Ind. an* settled nea r »ei

b aarrlsd twine, h&s secern4 a If a bo lag a Piss boot or. QM
was larsfi Ellor iho «. Mr, lr»*H of Monger t/'en . Thors probably
wsm stfsr ebildmn.

(2) John Ellor*,

(3) *ba.« Ellor1.

(6) bry ElUr^.

(?) bsMlvtoo tlUr*.

(6) Soy Ellor*.

(7) Harrison Eller*.

(6) ailaorooo lllor. lb ssrrM la Uoumy aad tied hiUp tho Cl all
bar Ueving a «lb «ai sis chi 1/f ran Who asaod to Hanoi Co., lad.

2a ha Ellor , (>orge*, Chris l us*), bom la flrflMa la l?b| 4. oa his fsm
oast of ElonUngion, bmareo 0a.( Istlisa la Aogwst l*4X bs worried la
Tl nr la la. Swoon iMth, aa* aboat 16.*0 wo sod to aapner Co., lisU'liy whom
Way Used walll 1632 whoa fs ad 1U ms bora brrfaosi la*n la ttonroe
Co.. !mi«m Pars thsy worn* la 163) tsblar bis wot bar, Cbrlstoaa.

with those, Their fom flfbd contained 320 arms bet later aawalsltloao
larraasot It ta 05 acres. *b was an Itinerant b»Uke4lst preacher, boa
after their arrival la Indiana, Mi Ellor oas aob a Jestle* of tho Kano,
a poo! lion hr hold for a mo*r of ywara. b was sleeted hauu /v*r» of
ham Coaaty for toe tome an4 sae araapyiag that pool at tts tlso
bath. (!•« *A History of The Ellor Folly* by 2. a. Ellor. l»l*i also
'• * ii^ry of "•(*", * « »ii * t •», d.*.

Tbs slomn c*v| Id ran of John ElUr* aw* bis vlfs ‘*ssn bilk oni

>crga U Ur*. in « Sept. ‘.ill. 4. Q Upt. 1676 U

Co., la4, bs la. la Issucly, as his first wtfs, ksbri Francis
aad bad children, (!) bam E. ilUr*, b. 17 M. 16)0* . Wyt*

) Kean C. tller\ b. 26 J Mb 1632i Mr 16® | (3)

John W. ElUr'. b. < Dm. 16)6| is 21 April LK6| (a) Hannah Jdb
Ellnr\ b., 23 barch 18)7| 1. 26 ** 16?)| (?) OMrpe o. ElUr*, b.
10 Mg. I63f| d. 23 am. 1662| (6) Salty S. ElUr, b. 26 April 166)|
d. 6 Qba. !*»?, tho narriod, 73 Fab. 1670, David Arts amt had a

mi (7)

16 «6,

A. A. ElUr , b. 1 bay

family of ) sons

IV. 5 1 d. 23 Jbly 166 1.

>«r# El Ur*, nsrriod, ,n ott. l*<6, as his sooossd wtfs, is rah
Fb*Uy sad by bar hod (6) Isaac Frond Ellor', b. , 6 Oat. H?7, ehs
aorriod, 11 Jan. 1977, Mary 7. Wt U sad hod s fsMU af five ehlU-
mn she lived and narrlad, nwoly, (a) Merg T, ElUr i (b) iamb
Viu/| («) hobort 0. tile/* (d) Jsnrls T. Eller «d <•) oilllaa 1.

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Eller. t

(2) William Eller4. No record found.

(3) John Eller Jrj4, died h Oct. 181*6 while in service as Lieut, in the

U. S. Arry in the Mexican War. He was serving as sheriff of Monroe
Co. at the time of his enlistment and just elected to the legislature
of the state but did not live to serve. He married Mahala Pauley
and had children as follows, (1) Sarah Eller-’, m. George Truitt and
had a family of 5 sons and 2 daughters; (2) James M. Eller'’, d. July
1362; m. Kate Rice and had one daughter, Nenny Eller6; (3) Fletcher
Eller'’; (li) Susan E. Eller-’, d. 1902; m. Mr. Bailey; (?) Isaac P.
EllerC, b. 181*2, m. 1901, Lydia Coleman; (6) Josephine M. Eller^, m.
Ellis Hickom and had a family of one son and one daughter.

(1*) Elizabeth Eller^, m. Crawford Cole. No further record found.

(?) Henry Eller*1, bom in Virginia, 9 June 1817; d. 30 Aug. 1889; m., first,
Sept. 1837, Balinda Bailey who died in 181*1*. She was a dau. of

Thomas and Barbara Bailey of Virginia. He m. 2nd., 29 June 181*?,
Elizabeth Nancy Shreve who died 2? Jan. 1902.

His three children by first marriage were, (1) Elizabeth Jane
Eller'’, b. 20 Oct. I838; d. 22 July 1911*; m. Henry Stimpson and
raised a large family; (2) John Thomas Eller-*, b. 29 July 181*0; d.

1* Jan. 1916; m., 1st., 2 Oct. 1867, Louisa M. Hensley; m. 2nd., 6
Sept. 1891, Sarah Vandyke. Children by first marriage were, (a) Henry
Alva Eller"; (b) Raymond H. Eller and (c) Herbert H. Eller^. Child¬
ren by second marriage to Sarah Vandyke were , (d) Byron V. Eller6
and Thora Eller". John Thomas Eller' was a Civil War Veteran, wounded
at Missionary Ridge. He also held many positions of trust in Monroe
Cointy; (3) George Henry Ellsr^, b. 2? Sept. 181*2; d. 10 March 181*?.

The eight children of Henry Eller^ by his 2nd. wife, Elizabeth
Nancy Shreve, were, (1*) James William Eller'’, b. 29 May 181*6; d. 1
Sept. 1923; m. 28 Nov. 1872, Frances Hagar of near Exeter, Nebr.

Family lived near Tiyon, Nebr. Their children were, (a) Mildred6;

(b) Ida*; (c) Donald6; (d) Bayard6; (e) Wayne McVeigh Eller6, b. 28
Sept. 1881, now living In Petersburg, Va.; (f) Frances^; (g) Leone1**;
(h) Harley^*. (5) Harriett Angelica EllerS 6 Jan. 181*8; d. 17
March 1926; m. , 11 Jan. 1877, James Richard Arriernan. *amlly lived
near Fairmont, Nebr, They had one daughter, Roxy Victoria Ammerman6;
(6) Margaret Belinda Eller’, b. 12 Arrll lBtl?) d. 2 Jan. m.

Joseph H. Kirby and lived near Bloomington, Ind, They had a family
of one son and three daughters; (7) Vehene Susan Eller'’, b. 1* Dec.
18?0; d. 20 Sept. 1^31*. She m., 1st., 1 Sept. 1870, John A. Mayfield;
m. 2nd., 9 Sept. 1899, John Gooding of near St. Joseph, Mo. There
were one son and two daughters by first marriage; no children by
second marriage. (8) Frances McYlcar Eller , b. 1* March 18??; m.,

2 Nov., 1979, William Henry Johnson and had*a family of one son and
two daughters; (9) Mary Laura Eller'’, b. 6 April I8?li; d. 19 April
1921*. She a., 2? Sept. 1881, William D. Ward and had three children
named, (a) Roy F. Ward6; (b) Annlbella Ward6 and (c) Len Eller Ward;

(10) Joshua B. K. Eller , b. 2? Nov. 18??; m. , in Exeter, Nebr., ?

May 1881, Clara E. Buck. Family resided in Exeter, Nebr. until 1896
when it removed to Omaha, Nebraska where he was employed by' the
Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. They had two children, (a) Clyde
Eller6, b. 23 Sept. I883, and (b) Genevieve Eller6, b. 29 Nov. 1893;

(11) Charles Dow Eller % b. 23 Jan. I8?8j m. 21 Nov. i860, Flora
Brown who d. 13 April 1928, Family lived in Bloomington, Ind.

(6) Susan Eller^, sixth child of John^ and Susan (Smith) Eller, m. William
Rowe. No farther record found.

(7) II. El kr , 6.. la dnjrm Co.. «y., 12 April 1**11 d. $ April 170)

an4 Uaa earl#4 1b *a ad 1 nc» Chapal '#«. , Own Co., lad. It ft., 1
Sapt . I*w0, FaraPy iMin. Ni «u • ial4«r In both Um C«U(«i

anl Civil a*r*. ViAMlit. Fanl ly Ileal In C lay *v»r, of -1- Co. ^
Iftflmft, l> «1 ly of 10 eh 1 14 for. m follow, (1) Mo ft.

6.1 All a., |) •Ureb 1*6*, 1b Omago Co., lad.. Wry

Sandara ml r* 1 • • 4 1 fwd ly of Uitm mm id l«ao Warrior* ; (?)

MM •-! gbt IlUr‘, t. ) Jaly l*b)i >., Lot., 10 Jhly 1967, had*

Ml loo 1 a. M„ 70 7+\j 1**?, Fr*. Jana boa It. fj r flrot narrtaoa
thorn aara thraa • rmm vd C bo cr*. lSrar ^ M. narrlapai

()) LnelnW Jmo ElUr , b. ?? borer 1%6j 4. ?5 0b«. 1*7S| a., JO
Aaf . 1*46, John Vraor of noor linear, In4. | U) hathor X EUor ,
b. 16 Jon. 1V| a. , *0 ‘be. 1*66, *~4rah A. f nm». UloH o
follj of f l a chiltran. (0) l»r*fty Ann ElUr6! (b) blanlo Ida ElUr |
(0) Million hoUMay IU« 1) Jooopn icooloy EUor «d (o) Colob
■orrtoon Elian {O *ory IUmmii EUor , fc. 1 /*ly l'<0| d. 16
bay If *oa. it! . -trtoo Fraooan, no looooi (6) ftorab

Elio/, d. 7.1 (7) Jaaoph El lor , b. 1* Ort. 1*Q| H Sort. 1*7?,
b*ng*rot A. Salto and mi afcli’r.-., (o) Urry Ellor*| (b) Corrto
Cl Ur6. (6) funoa Elio/, b. ) boreb U<7| n., ?1 Jar.. 1*7W,
loMi bo rvff and raloo4 a fii«y of two mm lo» b.f uni
(f) loam FUfMM EUor , b. ) April 1*^| a., ?? Jan. 1*67, Otri*

U Cook and md an* r dicblto, 1 10 ftp, inland • filly of ti
W|Mon, (10) Clara Co Ua ElUr , ba 1 5opt. 1*61 1 a., Fot. 1*77,
Wrtoft *UUr mi raloo* a filly of i>r*o iom ml thro* v^*v*ni
... EUor*, b. ?) topi. l*6f| a.. H Aa«. l*ifc, InolU
In and bad cblltran, (o) Cm*UM EUor6! (b) tearatt ElUr6!

(0) am Elio/ and (d) met. Slur6.

(6) binoroa EUor1, alybtb child of Joan id Kam (Sctfth) Ellor, «u b.

la 1*?)| a. lot., Jooopb boold by H iMa »*• ana «a>|bur, (1)
Jan. WU\ 91 •» Jn4., obit A7, John 0. Wait id bad ay
bio (?) Colaaoaa ()) |y 1 labor Waeo. ( 1 (1) Laclnta Wm 1

( f) Alloa ^na/| (6) bae'anl* «. Wat and (?) Zftarnh hooia.
f", math child of Jcbn and Saoon with) ElUr. to

(With' El Ur.

(7) Oaaloy E1U
(10) Sarah *lUr . tooth oMl4 of Jab n and

(11) Franeia A. ElUr4, a

child of Jaba

With) ElUr, b.

6 bftfah 1*10 In Ky . | 1. at bio ho. naar ll»aiia|VM, In*., * M|.
170{. Ba ft. , April l\JB, Eltaoboth Fa»ly. b§ antonM Urn btUdlct
Onrrb blnUtry la lib, »*• obooon nom la l^A and ortainod oa
1 Dor la 1*??. b. ... a water of iho Inti ana Coi/m and
faithfully nml any ebrpi id iu to laid by aU On eaw with-

la hla chrtctli lifUtaM. Tho chi Proa of Fnla A. EUor id
hU air* tllioboth ha ly mo, *ory I. I * trel l*k«i

.97), Ooorpo If, b*b|b af Erto, him. Fi: od

flrot M 0 far* aoar bodford, Xn4. and Uur at IlilarVoa, Ind.

Tboy had o filly of thn i m and ta» doctoral (?) John X EUor .
b. 1*^1 a., 1*71, lira 5nd4Ur and bod cbilbm, (o) Frol B.
ElUr6! (b) Floranro balU ElUr, and («) binnlo Farr ElUri ())
tfLUidb IlUr*. t. i< Jan. 1#Q» n., U Fob. 1*79, boUo hrry
and bad cM Idea a, (o) >arloa A.bary tllor*| (b) bar Uy Oorry ElUr 1
(0) Oooar bann Illar , (d> Ida HU IUo/, (o) CbthoriBO Vy
ElUr^i U> hanrlotta EUor4, b. P . ., ) fbh. 17U at

bHf»H, In4. Sbo " l*Tt, Mm loy » % •-aim. li

•tUMcd Indiana Onlea rally and cm a UarMr far tmr al yaara.

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Children, (a) Albert Glenn Dennison; (b) James Francis Dennison6;

(c) Bessie May Dennison ; (d) Pearl Dennison^ and (e) Ruby Dennison6;
(5) Carrie 3. Eller6, b. 25 June 1856; d, 22 July 1863; (6) Martha E,
Eller^, b. 26 April 1858; m. 1st,, 20 April 1875, J» T. Stipp; m,
2nd,, 21 Dec. 1882, J. H, Brown of Monrovia, Ind.; m., 3rd,, 28 May
191ii, ti, C. Dennison, former husband of her deceased sister. There
was one child by first marriage and three by second. No children by
third marriage. (7) Zaring Eller-’, b, 19 June i860, no further
record; (8) Ida M, Eller'’, b. 16 July 1862; d. 30 Aug. 1862.

kj)

vm. tun w.»

of t*W

smwc? or alto or sarouur mtajua

Mj district bslMff to tho Rrortnco of Wit oft4 W»borf . It foraorlj
•u • ouch Urpr lorrltorjr thot to lio '«mt« or liw sertl vd to tho

SIm terror on too sooth.

T>» vrltor to lirtitul to Rr. Ami 11 lor of iroffstrooso ), tMch, Imoif
for tfao follovlnr rweord of too aUm fvl lj of K1 lor »*Jrh ir. »<nw r«m<u
rj<f*<t i comKtlM «1U cortolo oorlj Ulor onlfmrto to

TOo ll|n fuillj of tllor lo osw of fr»»t artlw*ltf« .totlof

f rrm Rr. tllor' • lot tor to Utlo or 1 lor, to tod 71 April ltd, hm •« yo. • In too tort
0400, 6t0 - TtO eortorloo, oor *r», U«M to «y s»io«n, UoR«t«n 1 ■ All|ta •
fonwrlf Llotltoro - ( tOoo on If • loros *or* lo ) . poorftl (Itsu fro V4 ootors

toll. r0*7 mmrm COllod U«U«M Mid COO fr-W MUof. TS WJ OP»o4 OO fro* OOllf
during too §t>. oirury, and lo 'Jo tto eortory coo lOo Aimoii, •*» sottlod toon
Of Aotsnooo. >oy osro of Vo'UA’ (Schotss'l o rift a, mV troy In tholr tor*
dsocwnOol fros Uw irw.U roc*. I IngU fartltoo of tho Almw oMitsrod Into
Msstollo*.. !>ow *4*l« spnot oot so oor If sottlort lo too op foroot ro«lono of
trot tins « C»w of tftooo no It loro with tho ftroooo IU0, W Ms fowl If, eloorol
lond |o oo ofwstloc of Uo foroot, ot uo foot of Urscosn. TMs doom* tocoo
too iWMtral ooot of Uo tllor faatlf, (RlrocMwnt lo lo Uo Alfowor Alfo two r

•It lo troo Uut I cmoi footttoolf iKornis Uo |wo>b<7 *f oor foro-
foUwro bo for* Uo boflrrlm of tho 19)0' s bwrouoo iU*l»« ooro wots ory
dl f f l colt dortof tio nr ysm, lo u» «ttf irMwi of ft. Qillss ( *wi toorlosV),
Uo ototo orebftooo to ftf*fo«w (Vbrorllwrt In Aootrlo), oM to t«w iUU srcMvos
lo Rooborv oo Uo 'woto, m «ol«oMo swtorlol oftoo i Uo toot of tlw Tft let* of
Altoasborv o»d fwlly, Owl r haodoos owf oorfs.* Hr.

swl4 roo-ol swH laforwotloa If os *m1< loo tlw tlsw mV il| It oot.

Rr. tllor'o lot lor tftso rsottiMS, *Tfts rool ootiwrtlo prowr f isiaisr of oor
fowl If lo A 1400 lo *Ubool tllor of Bn i«ro to lo, noor ktalftu (11400) berm lo
11)0. AmoMIai to Ms fotiwr ft ooot b»«o toon boro to VrtoroVola or la A. loro -
rwoto, twcowoo Uo two toosw Uo 00 If oboot two 0 lloooloro o*ort.* to Uo odOAlo
of tlw 1 tOO'o to 1*0 bog IrrlOf of tlw IMO's, osesrdlm to Rr. tllor'o lot lor, o«o
HoLh loo tllor *oo Using la tllororwoto on* hri tllor su It sir* in kUrtUla,
ohllo nor otJwro of tlw row oons Uftdlordo la Uo too rorfoa,

Rlchnol tllor mV Ms f«U 1/ utotr Of tRs dwrcli (CotlwUo) vwoord to bon
boon tlw following!

f ARILI X

RXOUtl lUJDr, born la 16)0 olthor la fatorotola or tl lortmto in AI400,
•osorlo. Re rocord f <*rv of Ms dsoth, ft aorrlod, Jtwiry 1M», 141U0 w.rhor,
bon 16)0 1 d. T Jar . 16*4. Tholr cftlldron, all borr la ftotorotota, ww|

(1) to no tllor*, b. 1660.

(7) Rorila tllor*, b. 166). An inorium rxorl la tlw I to to Arrtlw* of
ftswtwrf 00 uo Tftfwbo, dotwd 11 1st. 1790, 14s tho *oorawi 00a of
Rlrhoo 1 tllor 1a oold to ban loft l*o tsoMry mV of to now no trooo
boa boon foaoV of Ms, UmH bs or bio Iwlro rwton Uon l ho sis
b rot hors owot ray Mo (or *sln) bla sbars • Cons Tth shorn).*

( fordo roo tom l>b Ut, Hi, rm 7ft*)

b3b

(3) Georg Christa Eller , b. 1665.

(b) Bartl Eller2, b. 1667; d. 1 Dec. 172b; m. 15 Oct. 1690, Barbara Swartz,
b. 1655; d. 1 April 1720. She is said to ha re married twice. (See
Family II below.)

(5) Jacob Eller2, b. 1668.

(6) Mathias Eller^, b. 16 Feb. 1670. He is the ancestor of Mr. Aurel Eller,

now living in Munich, Gemary, who supplied this record of the Algau
Eller family.

(7) Mang Eller2, b. 5 Sept. 1773.
family ii

2

BARTL ELLER , bom in llnterstein, Algau, Germany in 1667; d. 1 Dec. 172b in
Grethennflhle. He married, 15 Aug. 1690, in Grethenmflhle, Barbara, widow of
Michel Mill, whose maiden name was Swartz. She was b. 1655; d., b Jan. 1720. Her
first husband died, 1 Dec. 1608, in Ore therm*! hie. As will be noted two of his
sons according to the records were given Identical names. It was not unusual for
early German families to give mltiple names to their children one of which would
be the same for more than one child but most unusual to make all given names the
same for two of their children yet the record (Catholic Church) of Bartl Eller
naming two of his children George Michael-^, this writer has been assured, is
correct.

2

Children of Bartl Eller and his wife, Barbara Swartz, were, (Catholic
Church Record);

(1) Joseph Eller^, b. 9 Feb. 1692.

(2) Georg Eller^, b. 2b April 169b.

(3) George Michael Eller\ b. 5 Sept. 1695. The church record says he

"emigrated", but to what place and in what year is not given nor was
ary other reference to him found. His date of birth would reasonably
well fit that of George Michael Eller, the emigrant ancestor of this
genealogy whose first son named Pater must have been bom not later
than 17b6 (see pages 17 - 31 herein) and, according to this writer's
guess, was born in Germary and nay have been a half brother of the
emigrant's other children. (See last paragraph on page 9 herein.)

There are other facts, however, that militate against the George
Michael Eller, bom 5 Sept. 1695, of the Algau family in Germany being
the same as the George Michael Eller of this genealogy. In the first
place the Algau George Michael was a Catholic whereas the George
Michael of this genealogy and his children were Protestants. This fact,
of course, does not preclude the possibility of the latter George
Michael having been bom a Catholic and later becoming a German Baptist
Brethren, or ’Xinkard, the church he attended after reaching America.

In the second place whereas the Algau George Michael had no brother
named Henry , the American George Michael apparently did have. In the
third place the children of the George Michael Eller of this genealogy
bore given names that did not conform very well with those of the Eller
families of Algau.

(b) George Michael Eller^, b. 31 Oct. 1696; d. 10 June 1772; m., 1st.

Magdalene Speller, b. 1705 in Scheldegg; d. 25 Jan. 177b in Neuhaus; m.
2nd., in 17b5, Anna Brunner, b. 1715; d. 2b June 1769 in Newhaus.

There were seventeen children by both marriages, eleven cry first mar¬
riage and six by the second. (Catholic Church Records) Children py
first marriage, (1) Agatha Eller^, b. 8 Oct. 1725; (2) Bartl Eller^,
b. 30 Dec. 1726; (3) Maria Eller1*, b. 1 Sept. 1720; (b) Joseph Eller14,
b. 25 Jan. 1730; (5) Anton Eller1*, b. 31 March 1731} (6) Johann Eller*,

(5)

(6)
(?)

6. ?) Vjr 1733, (7) Horto Li Ur\ ay*m. b. U Jan. M (S) barter
Illai/*. t. 7) Jar. 1737 , (b) I'raollo IlUr-, tain wit£ bUwrla, b.

17 Sopl. 17W0| (10) lothnrtma !.Ur - with Omlli, t. 17 So,- .
1710, (11) fetbooo 111*1*. t>. 71 7^. 17V). Cttltfro* lv wool Mr*
rloyo. IU) Mwn tlUr*. t. 17 =*c. 17V6, U>) Omalln liUf*,

iltla, b. *> Jon. 1710 i WUUf- IUm”o b. 6 April 17k»j (IS)
Llaa KUh^, b. 70 too. 1750, (1A) Alla* UUr*. oynln, b. 77 April
1757, (17) lUrl* II Ur*. b. 1 *•«. ITff.

AiVraoa UWfJ, b. ) :#f. 169*.

Lltr, main. b. 75 Jar. 1700.

UUr\ b. 6 Jm. 1705.

•oto • Mr. banal Kll*r la Mo .altar of 71 April l*S7f roportael f '.ft4tN tha MrlA
(77 Aly 177k) of aa* Cbrtotlar filar, area** »» of ana Klehaal UUr,
olno of finding o MrU r«(oH of ana Amo IlUr, hom 1475, n«p>ur of ona
bv'rbolr filar. Tbaaa rua« aam l ha i«a oa the>aa of aarly filar aatlUro la
Ux Cav- * i .

In anothar lallar to "r, **r*» ». lllar of boumb.n# Ta. , »r, *s«al I liar
apaln *iat*« bio ballaf that tha IlUr family be - I to baflmlf* «UA ona •Chr.
tlU* obo, In * *a bib earn Vary A.*). , «u Ur.fr la Urotbarf naor frrafaoo on -aha
Conotoneo ram fa aatobllobad. ant of t’.rrl* f oraal, Va •lllar* CUarlnr* that
boa ailaUal to l ha praaart *ay. In Wa aona Uttar bo atatal that tha maa banrjr
' Oalsrleb) tan nal ap«nor to llfoo o*tU tha OOM barm U of tan f aaa*l.

la Ui Uttar of 1 Ana IbC? Mr. banal IlUr fnfaro to a rm«l IlUr foil);
of tba felnaUal, oloo onnUono ua IUar.«ttar 7wtlly Oboao family a*«t boa
boon In XamUorf for ooetorlaa. aavtlng oatataa arH eootUo oa for # tba *4no
Hot oo Colofma. An Mr af IM« family noo batnriob Atom von IlUr, lord of
Art*4 ate aw fl*ao bio irlnraljr embntloU la 1577*77 and narrlai Snail la nan
>» atari. It lo fron ana of Uaw BUnalnM tm IbO MM Ml* t V lM
balloted, and confaaaaa bo ollll boUavoo, tha IlUro of IMo f»n»«bc bliiob 1
bat too ooprly ao proof.

Anatbar fa**.* lllar fanl ly, %. l«ml IlUr *v*. »u tba branch lotatri
lo Soldo. Italy on tbo boMar of tbo Tyrol ram tbo total IlUr noa iUMa at
tba foot of OrtUrpnoirM* llocUr. TV. I a family an,lMta4 lo Alya* boforo 1570.

1*36

Supplemental information that arrived too late to
be included in main body of this book.

Page 106

ftith Briscoe, wife of Charles Wesley Welker was born 1 Oct. 1866 at Bottom
Boat, Yorkshire, England, the dau. of George and Mary (Ward) Briscoe.

Julia Ann Morris, wife of John Quincy Welker was bom 26 Nov, 1867 at Rome,
Floyd County, Georgia and died, 1 March 191*1, at Bloomington, Idaho. Sue was a
dau. of Oad and Elizaoeth (Wanslee) Morris.

George Henry Thomock, husband of Louisa Mahal a Welker, was bom at Farming-
ton, Davis Co., Utah, 31 March 1859 and died 26 May 1926 at Bloomington, Idaho.

He was a son of John and Inn (Bott) Thomock.

Page 107

Sarah Jane Lloyd, wife of James Jyron Welker was bom, liu Oct, 1B73» at
Montpelier, Bear Lake Co., Idaho and died, 15 Nov. 195b, at Los Angeles, Calif.

She was a dau. of Thomas and Hannah (Davis) Lloyd,

Warland (or Harlon) Edward Loveland, husband of Amelia Jane Welker was bom,

11 Nov. 1861*, at Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah and died, 23 Jan. 191*1, at Lincoln,
Bonneville Co,, Idaho.

John William Prescott, first husband of Elisa Augusta Welker, was bom, 16
Feb. 1869, at Liberty, Bear Lake Co., Idaho and died, 3 Oct. 1901*, Sharon, Bear
Lake Co., Idaho. He was a son of John and Salome Leone (Hasnond) Prescott. After
his death his widow married, as her second husband, Levi Henry Long.

Willard tfrrm Crook (or K rogue), husband of A lx a da Angelins Welker was bom,

16 Sept. 1876, at Fish Haven, Bear Lake Co., Idaho and died, 1 Jan. 191*9, at Idaho
Falls, Idaho. He was a son of Samuel Lane and Sarah Ann (Haines) Crook (or K rogue ) ,

Sliiaoeth Mary Jane Nelson was bom, 19 Feb. 1853, at Willows Creek, Box
Elder Co., Utah. She married Anton (or Anthon) Madson, bom, 16 June 18 51, at
Yealisn, Roetrup, Aaborg, Denmirk and died, 19 April 1921*, at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Page 108

E.-r-a Chris term Packer, married, 13 May 1895, as his second wife, Charles
Edmond Nelson. She was bom, 1 Feb, 1872 at Brigham City, Box Elder Co., Utah
and died, 3 July 1926, at Farmington, San Juan Co., New Mexico. She was a dau.
of Nephl Elwell and Helen Rachel (Howland) Packer.

Page U0

Charles Eugene (Hall) Evans was a son of Jamss Ignatius Hall and Eveline
Amelia Olaen. His mother married, as her second husband, Mr. Austin Evans after
which her son, by her first husband, adopted the name Hall.

4JT

FoO* 84 and )7W

0 _

(11) loator Clo"oU*H Tarm* , t. ?} Bo*. 1MO, m Mo loomod

uUfnp^ ohon jrooAf, than wurH tho :<m 3 Vo to Coll*c* vtioro ho
rinloKod 0 c«m to o*(!*»or1rv. M* foil la with or. • ldorly oooplo r.oo*
Fortpioor propooad that ho boco«o ilolr footor child which ho t<m4 to
Bo Uklhf loffollj tho noo of Fool Forpiea, Ho <Uollfco4 o*ot inoor'.nc and
orrtorod a nodical ochool to Chicago, lator ilVoollAi a aillool ochool lo
St. load a. Ba Un )olnod tho uvrloar Hadloal it* * • » ' ' rfora Mo

for oory ywaro oo Moopllol Importer. Mt did net oorry ,

1438

SUSAN LONS RECORDS

Birth and death records found in an old memorandum book of one Susan Long
of Wilkes County, North Carolina. This writer has not been able to identify
Susan Long but in view of the preponderance of V annoy names thinks without
question that she was a member of that family probably of the Rev. James Vannoy
branch. The names have been rearranged for this book for easier reference.

Vannoy

, Nathaniel Sen'

r, bom

16

1714?

l«

John *

IV

19 Sept.

I8H4

IV

Elijah

IV

2h Dec.

1815

IV

Phebe *

N

27 July

1816

It

Mary *

19

17 March

1818

f»

William

IV

9 July

1819

99

Preston

IV

28 Oct.

1820

99

Jesse #

•V

10 Nov.

1820

19

Enoch *

IV

21 Jan.

1822

99

William

IV

15 Aug.

1822

91

Sary

91

30 Sept.

1823

99

John M.

IV

1 Oct.

I82I4

N

Susanna #

II

15 Oct.

1821*

99

James H. *

n

9 March

1826

II

Rachel

n

11 July

1826

II

Andrew

19

lii Feb.

1828

II

Sarah

II

9 July

1°29

II

Margaret

99

9 July

1832

n

Nancy

19

3 Feb.

103li

m

Rhoda

91

10 Nov.

183ii

m

Nancy C,

II

10 Feb.

1836

19

William M.

II

23 Jan.

1838

91

dusana C.

19

12 Dec.

1838

II

Sarah Ann

IV

29 Jan.

I8I4O

IV

Mary E,

IV

1 Feb.

181*1

•means

a child of Rev.

James Vannoy

, pp. 36U369

Vannoy

, Andrew

died

9 Oct.

1809

IV

Susana (wife of Andrew)"

13 March 1816

n

Nathaniel Sen'

r.

26 July

1835

ii

Nathaniel (son

of Andrew) d.

25 Aug.

1852

n

John (prob, son of Rbv. James) d. 28

Apr.

m

James (son of Andrew) d.

19 Feb.

1857

n

Abner

19

15 Nov.

1857

n

Litia (prob. wife of EnocJr

, p. 357) d. 11

Brown,

John M,

bom

7 Feb. 1821

McOratfy, Andrew

99

5 March

1809

II

Mary

19

1 Nov.

1810

n

Susana

91

16 Dec.

iei2

19

Rebecca

H

16 March

18 Hi

19

Nancy

19

8 Kay

1° 16

II

Fanny

99

3 May

1821

«

Phebe

II

18 Sept.

1828

CA#ens,

Susana

IV

11 Jan.

1825

H

J. F.

19

1 April

1835

19

J. s.

19

8 March

181*0

n

D. L.

19

12 Sept.

18U2

1855

Afcochor, No I7

41 Od ?1

Oct.

1*4?

• jo if*

•

Jw

106*

brrx/r., KU.Uh

• n

• • .

1661

~mncj, I mu

• 7k

Jww

169

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■

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169

• *11

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1*9

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1661 (51)

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1%7

• 04*11

• T

Jo*.

105)

fmm, ibMlai

• 16

Ort.

1667

~*»U, M*

• 79

*iy

169

Norrioo*, VI 111 «i H

• 6

April

1661

ta.i,

• 74

■0*.

1660

.'■•nr.l r*« , -*.*•

• 77

16)7

Jljrinp,

• 16

oVm

166«

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• J

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loot, North*

• 6

J«.

165)

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166}

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.

1616

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• 1

April

16}}

Mm, John* mi

• 71

1660

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• 6

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169

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• 7 0

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l«4

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•

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U*0

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•

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1665

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• H

April

166?

Vjroit, >i«ii

• l)

April

1671

UiO

Abbott, LmIU Jr.

26?

A— roa. f Aren*, A— run

au.)

Abac bar, a<mi

ao

Kary Matilda

32?

Cl— da

so

MallU

327

Dart—

so

Ml Chard

2*.

30?, )U

Mabal

ao

ApeUfata, C— tor

66

nm k

ao

L—a

6?

M ora

ao

Martha J.

66

Achroyl, laiMMh (Mol— a)

let

Mac hal

66

The—

1*

Arnold, ifitlMf

305

bailor V.

. L

Baiba r

3)1

i!— , Ilia*

m

Mary tllaa

106

KUaatoui

ts

Aebard

323

Omor^m 0.

14K

Atbay, ibUlb

232

Hair (Narla) tl.

W.

M.

Aall— *a irttey

It?, 206

"•ry

na

Aall— , Ant— Mr*.

it?, 206

•ancy

»?

%«•<«« (Black—}—

\u>

haebrvn, i— L.

121

fcfcart

na

i

•

i

i

3?6

Barak

16?

falter! —

>6«.

37*. 3to

The—

A6

"M-11. A-a

1A

X— or, Bin

n?

habar, latn*

2*.

26, 3A

Alb— eh, Jacob

13

M— -a. W

, *6*3*6 to 600

Alb— r, Colla 9.

AU— V.

133

lib , Hart*— 1

ua

ArVter K.

133

Aldan, Jobe

A3

Colter 1—

ut, rrt

PruiUa

A)

1U aa bath

326

lltorfar, From, fa— 1/ af

366

la— i v#

1)3

Aldrt*—, villi—

1?

1— oil J.

133

All tain* • Pariah

Ida m.

133

Alim, Arid

m

Job*

131

Jobs mm—

m

J ora than

162

u-rt- ».

m

Bata

326

tlekaH

m

Mara hall

133

Allar, Carl

a

195

"aria Martel— wa

•

Abort P.

133

Mleb— 1

t

Ural .'a—

325

tala—

t

balda— r, tarah

•3, 3T3

— — ( A-roh

At

haitelr. Char laa

225

Cor— ll—

At

Cljrdk t.

276

l—H 1,

23t

Clpda M.

225

tl labia

At

Ill • aba l* (*— laa«>

225

br»n»te M.

«•

1— [ Met)

225

Mi

At.

W

Jam ( Blair)

226

Jay— Aril —

w

J— n Clyte

225

ioroy Qala

711

Martha I.

225

Mahl—

*12

Ary A—

225

ttaamal*

352

1—7 A—

225

rielal M— da

A?

Malpb 1.

225

bailor U

216

Abort B,

226

And—, Carolina L.

330

TA— • J.

2A

A—roo, Ur* nun, Arbr— aU.)

%alaa, Ada Joaofbl—

166

1NM

32?

Allan u

16*

Mm

X*.

32?

Alla flora*—

a*

Jaba

)U

BUaabotb

A?, A*

1*1*2

Bales, Frances A.

INDEX

11*7 Bateman, Lecnard L.

220

George

11*7

Beale, John

293

Ivan

11*7

Family

292

John W.

155

Ninlan

293

Joseph

11*7

Beam, Richard, his will

21*,

33

Laura

11*7

Beard, Emma

1*3

Lawson 3.

11*7

Beatty, Charles

309

Leander

11*7

Beaver, Grace Edna

1*7

Martha

11*8

Bechman, Jacquillne

230

Mary

11*6

Bechtel, Carl Philip

31*0

Parnell lii6, I2i7 ,

11*8

George

13

Rachel S.

11*8

Hattie Rosemond

337,

31*0

Solomon

11*8

Karl, Justice

31*0

William H.

11*8

Roee (Waldburger)

31*0

Ballard, Belle (Ratcliff)

225

William

31*0

John Calvin

225

Beck, Francis M.

50

Marie (Mu rial)

225

Hamilton

157

Bange, George C,

332

3ecker, Peter

n

Scott

332

Beckner, Susanna

58

Baptist Associations 1*02,

1*03

Beckstead, David C.

382

Barbour, Elsia E.

157

Bee, Jannette

109

Barklett, Dorothy

296

Richard J. Moxey

109

Barlow, Braxton

1*06

Belt, John Lloyd

299

Charlotte (Carlton)

1*06

Bens, Georg

90

Martha A,

1*06

Jacob

91

3am, Gabriel

72

Margreth

91

Barnes, Ruby

126

Benfleld, J. 0.

80

Barnett, Saphronle

326

Bennett, David

110

3amey, Buerah

109

John B.

110

Sarah A.

109

Bennett's Meeting House

396

Barnhart, Benjamin B,

60

Benson, Judy

21*9

Cora A.

61

Bergers, John

0.

9

David M.

60

Berry, Miriam

338

Daniel

57

Rachel

361

Dora E,

61

Bigler, Barbara

11*

Eliza P.

60

Catherine

11*

Ida V.

60

Elizabeth

11*,

51

Joseph

60

Hester

11*

Joseph A.

60

Israel

11*

Julia A.

60

Juliana

11*

Leah

61

Mark

U*

Lulum

60

Phebe

U*

Margaret S.

60

Salome

11*

Nancy T.

60

Blglow, Parley

106

Sarah L.

60

Bingham, George

1*06

3arr, Alexander

226

Harvey

1*06

Bessie

225

Joel

1*06

3arre, Enos

183

John

1*01,

1*07

Barrua, Benjamin M., family of

386

Joseph

111*

Nellie Z. (VanNoy)

386

Joseph H.

111*

Batchfleld, Anna

11*8

Martha

101*

Augustus

11*8

Mary Ellen

111*

Bateman, Elizabeth (Roush)

220

Philmore

1*01,

1*07

Ellen Elizabeth

220

Robert

1*01,

1*06

U)

HD

BuxSte. Tbonaa 401, 406

r randan, .tea

77

MllllM

606

Sranyvlna, tell la of

nj

dirral, ir»i W, )70,

>04

Bnltan, TcroUgr I.

47

Wary (Rail)

370

BroMloy, .tea S.

)Sf

mini

370

Braao, Coins filar

6)

i*l**r, Jacofc

70

M C.

4)

ait hop, HfrH, f «C ly of

A0

Alters

6)

Iso 11* (itJkjj)

300

Raters 0.

6)

alack, FrodarleS

ft

trios, .tei C,

AT

term Id

)A

friar Cross CkircR

ns, 3te

Joaoph

§0

Rriftil, Aaron 1.

3W

IMCJ ilUtM

)A

Util

3»1

lUlr, tern. Jam

m

Coro Ate Ida

3*1

4mm* 77S, 770

‘•lay Edna

3tl

lUflM, 0, Clay

1A

tlUotelh

SS

R. Or.

in

fall*

3*1

Hanley

13f

Arpol A.

301

Sarah 4mm

701

Rrtaeoo, RU

106

a»«UMA( FMUp

f«S

TlrfWdi

fSl

loch, klUMttr

ao

arm, NorSte u

710

ImIm

ao

Rrt lion. Rarparot L.

707

Rodso, John C.

S6

aroate, faolly of

at

ElaU C. (filar)

«

laaaa

a)

MU. Nar«srai (M) 317, 370.

3f)

Immy

a)

Urn*, Caikrlm urn 1

717

trool'a R1U

171

Soorpa K.

717

tewHUar, Rary A,

06

Raters 0,

717

a roam. Coro T.

406

tact, Alters 0. 1,

US

CUo4 i., foal *7 of

707

kowr, Chari* a

317

tiu

776

Bomra, Utel

14

F amy (El lor)

in

Ml

7)

loose Col.

in.

404

MllUi

14

Ramy

>67

tevlu, Raters

Iftf

Fmly

3ST

a— tar. rvctte a. r«uir •' 7Tf,

TOO

Am

AT

loyd, Emm F.

in

Rroom, terRoro lay

f))

M «.

3*1

Alters fa

7)3

(Artteda

1ST

teters K

f)3

Mill a

370

VUllte E.

f))

krtltnt

1ST

ftrmoiiog. Alters, faolly of

37f

IomUi, 'onlal

•

Pallia f Tootey )

370

4mm*

IS)

ftrsrter (RmteRor), iim

A.

SS

Ml

IS)

Rrstehor, itrtea

SB

lllllte

IS)

Anoa

sa

Royte, LiU Woo

730

Asm (ten)

A.

ST

Boyar, FrodarieR

)U

Asnio R.

63

RoyUt, Rotert F.

)ta

Ra«v.'aaUa

Si

RrolftH, Coral kixw

foa

Raltla

6)

QaUraa

71?

Colhoriss

ST,

S0

KltUteU

ft7

CteUSlas

ST

tU late ID 4m

foa

rtetUl K

*.

6)

Join

m

Elite

SI

RieRard F.

70*

Ellas ».

6)

Raters

m

Ell tote SR

«

Bradford' a Root ?dR,

300

W C.

61

1*1*1*

INDEX

Brubaker, Henry 53, 57, 61 tanyard (Bumgard)

Henry L.

58

Hannah

30

Isaac

58

James

30,

96

Jacob 0.

58

James Beal

30

Joel

57

Nancy

30

Jonathan

57

Samel

30

John 53, 51*,

57, 58,

59

Burb ridge , Catherine

316

61,

63

Lucy

316

John Jr.

63

Thomas

316

John A.

63

Bure ham, Catherine

118

John T.

58

John

118

Joseph

57

Nancy

118

Joslah E.

61

Burgess, Edward

303

Magdalene

58

Marl 11a Mae

21*9

Mary F.

58

Mary (Dads)

303

Mary S.

63

Sarah

303

Moses

58

Sarah (Hook)

303

Nicholas

57

Burke, George F.

71

Orpha

63

Marie C.

71

Peter

57

Burkett, Louise

362,

361*

Samel F.

l»8

Burk hard, Christian

73

Sarah (Eller)

61,

63

Bumes, Jennie U

328

Susannah (Flory)

61,

63

Burrlll, Viola

217

Tobias

58

Burrub, Hannah E.

381*

Bllliam P.

63

Bureon, Edith

11*7

Bruce, Emma (Olson)

390

Burton, Clyde E.

281

Joe lane

390

Burwell, Sarah Jane

113

Robert Orson

390

Buxton, Beatrice H.

251*

Robert T.

135

Da rid H.

251*

tassel 0., family of

390

Byers, Daniel

316

Saxon, family of

388

Byrket (Burklt, Burgltt)

Brunner, Henry

95.

96

Elisabeth

52

Brushy Mt. Association

395,

396

Jacob

35

tackley, Julian B.

205

John

50

Julian Mrs,

201*

Joseph

90

J. Dale

205

Sarah

1*2

Kenneth E.

205

Byrnes , Susan

167

Luclle M.

205

Maurice U

205

Caldwell, Barton V.

168

Raymond

205

Da rid W., family of

261

Roger

205

Cahill, Edward F.

280

Buffington, Mary V. Mrs.

227

Lou la M. (Ellar)

278,

280

Bumgarner (Bumgardner)

Calkins, Howard D.

282

Adas

376

Callahan, John C. , family of

367,

368

Archibald

377

Ida Louaaa

368

Cornelia

376

Calloway, John

28

James

75

Campbell, Elaine

121

Leonard

?e,

30

Francis

171*

Michael

28,

30

Janes

121

Simeon

7L,

75

Jesse

13<>

Simon

27,

30

Matilda (Abel)

121

Bundy, Jean

131*

Canady, Hannah (Millikan)

151*

Burqrard (Bumgard)

Cannon, John

315

Betsey

30

Canter, George

66

u<

c«m«r( Hr.

CtrlliU, teteeci

I*r»7, 9. P. >.

Vllllaa k*.

CtrliM, •Ury Am !•<,

riM»i m,

UmlfSM 1 B«4w«9>1 Qmvl

C*rr, *aaai
C«rt«f, ftffla 3.

c*»\ Jmm

nilla

CwlU, I1IM7 ^rw

taMl

C*U«,

C«*»lry, k*+ltrnr\, f«U| af

ft}

m

w*

F6

96*. m

m, ?«•
ut
IF
1)6
F6
91)
6$
F
9ft
9*7

Fft, Ft
Fft. Ft

m

CkrliM, IKJkf

W.

CUU, ftartfta T. (t^%^

aniu 3., fmii/ •'

CMiUmm, ••

Oml

v~ir» «.

frm ■„ rally *r
3 Ur* *».

krt»ri C., f«Ur af

(•((•rtM

ItUarln (?a»*qr)
UU

Nro 9.

ift« ft.

Ca»r** *f UtUr-% U1M4

>. 7*t m. n, tt.

AMtor»«« *.

Charts

■i«rr

C.

Ulk

UlM

Ft
9), A
Ft
iu

Y*
FT
F6
F4
FO
F0
FO
FO
FO
FI
FO
FI
IF
FO
FO
FO
FO
FO
90, n
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it. ft?
ft*, ft?
91
)*)
•7
91
91
91

m

§6. 97

Ckareft. Natllk
Hary (lUar)
tfllllM
Ctrcla . Lala

m+rj Laa (to**)

SUrtfi. ^*11 ft.

kif

niii

IliUtoU

Jmm% »*.

‘araft Ju»

tfUlUft

CUiy, 1r»wr C., fa*! ly «f 966,
CU«. lrO»r
Mrt, fmUr
Carallfta 9.

9rw*

lir flail

Mrn U. fast* af

kaiy fr» •

*urr

*Mlm 0.

tfllltm, rally af A.

UUara U

tU|fta

ClMMU, IcW*

CUam, flrgl 1 L. Jr.

Clraalaaai, tWiaMi f )F,

UOaala TW. IF, *4, )«.

til

lllaaatu M,

PMf

f-Uly af

kaftart

Mart Gam Vary
tent (Taffnoy)
Cliff art, UU* ft.

F. *6,

U7.

CaUaaM*. Ill laalii

a355 f s a5 *2 3§?j§2§?5>1 199999 25555555555*2 322

lih 6

INDEX

Coltrain, John W. , family of

391

Cooper, Martha

129

Colvard, Alva Jane

395

Mary

129

Anna May

181,

361

Mary Ann

12U

Benjamin H.

181,

361

Nathan

129

Carl

376

Rachel R,

108

Carl Franklin

376

Ruth Prevett

182

Charles H., family of

365

Copenhaver, Mary F.

373

Cicero, family of

36fc

Wayne L,

373

Ellen

78

Wilma V.

373

Fit* Rufus

181,

361

William J.

eu,

373

Powle

182

William R.

373

Fred

261

Corbly, John Rev,

315

Jane

371*

Cornett, Melissa B,

286

Jesse A., family of

261,

262

Cory, Elitabeth

Ui8

Joseph

121

Lucretia

IL18

Judge Fowl#

182

Noah

lii 8

Laura

362,

36L

Council, J, B.

Uo6

Mary Ida

181,

361

Coughlin, Hamer

326

Mildred

261

Cowan, Charles

235

Payton M.

260,

362

Charles R,

239

Phebe

182

Chariot te H.

239

Rachel

182

Gerald S.

235

Robert Payton

261

Hortense M,

222

Royal Fred

261

Larry

235

Rufus W. , family of

361,

*8

Michael Marie

238

Ruftis Winfield 181,

182,

362

Marjorie Sue

235

Sallle

182,

362

Nancy Jean

2 35

Sallle Virginia

181,

361

Ralph Ellis

235

Thomas J., family of

362

Robert rXiane

235

Thosua R.

181

Cox, Elisabeth

367

Virginia

Itt

Walter S.

365

Wade, family of

361

Crabtree, Margaret

310

Wade H.

181

Crawford, Martha Ann

267

William E., family of

362

Crlddel, Eva Nancy

38li

William Edgar

182,

362

Crist, Barbara

57

Colward (Colvard), William

28

Cromwell, Oliver

359

Colwell, Joseph

12L

Cronk, Earl T., family of

281

Comps on, Sarah

317

Crook, Willard H,

107

Cones, Mr,

191

Crosslin, Mack

331

Conner, Iva Irene

385

Crowder, Mary Lou

281

Jess* May

62

Crowe, Martha

303,

30L

Marie

28

Cumins, Judy Ann

339

Conway, Melinda

155

Mr.

126

Cook, Mabel C,

222

Paul Lack

339

Pierce E., family of

288

Paul Zack Jr,

339

Coolidge, David 0,

206

William Glen

339

Sandra Ann

206

Cunningham, Robert J., family of

253

Coombs, Geo. W, , family of

388

Curtis, Pichard

39ii

Pauline D. ( Van Hoy )

388

Coonc* (Koons), John

22

Dahl, Ellen

213

Cooper, George

129

Damron, La Vets

112

John

129

Dancy, Ann Morgan

353

Josephine

129

Edward

353

Let ha Jean

222

Edward J,

liOl

W7

•Wwy, Jaj

*+ry

:mr Him

NlrrU t.
r CHirtf)

C. , r«U; at
r«mll, Iroinr Im
Zmria, ibrahm • P. , fwUj of
iUurtnto

Gorin *«or
Gocll 3o*»

cm—

teoll C.

roioo

U»w4 '• loo

kdte
toll ft* V.

QMn* *

•Urel* fold If of
Artort PUri

JaarAa A
JolM Art in
UlWtk Avoo
UoUo

lorta Prodorlc*

Nft*

Rocft* (II Lor > IM,

Rorforol Ikonrr
Ary Goilo

Otto Illor
PrlcllU t»'«or7l
loollo

AM rt o«yn»
ftoooLf lfr*>

IP?
IP?, 3*3
UP
u*
If?
If?
If?
If?
1A
L06
®3, 31?

m

m

11

AT

a*

a*

ii?
iia
ii®, it*

u?
a<
a®, a?
at, a<

101

11?
U?
3M
f<, 3A
*5

a«
u?
in, m

a?

n?

Uf

m

a«

at

3«

a«
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at, m
a<
a®

3*

n?

a®

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at

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a?

rfcolo, •toy junia

a®

"ho rror

a?

Sum

36?

TS* r*n Tmiw

at

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jf*

Plrftslo

AT

MolOo tor!

at

Mol tor

a?

Vwto Loo

a*

oorror tflloy

A#

MfM

A*

HomoU

At

m tor vui

A*

mil loo

a?.

at

muioo A., foollf

of

JS<

tfllUoo frooo

AS

Ml loo

as

:«OfelM. Aryl >ro*o

3A

*9,

3®1

•Ooo, A*My 1.

3*3

‘oorArf. Sooot

at

Koiwia

at

tofiao

at

'■•to*, utorry

to

JooofO

a

•<A»r, Kilo A.

AO

A

*Mlf. AM

*3

*o«oooo. Alpio Ay

L3

Pro* 0.

t3

AoooU D,

A

:w, to

a

Amo CoUortno

i?

C—ro4 (Cord, Go,

mr*. Hi

•rod)

a

1?. 1®. 1>.

». tt.

».

t6

IllUtaU

u»

IT.

JO

TnO.f ■

a

Jatm

If.

I«.

H

Jmm Jr.

If.

«.

ro

1 itkarlo

.

i?

*+ry

If.

it

Ary Cothorlm

i?

OtlWo

a

hM

at

1»l»y, irVor C,

?A

Cljr*o A.

?13

Aon* eofofo

?A

Poro *.

PA

riorooeo

?a

Loo Ho «,

?a

vurtho loci Ho

n)

Ary IllaototA

?a

A17 Ptomoo

?a

Ary Ar««ro%

?n

Oocor I.

m

bb8

Dickins, Anthony
George Curtis
George Earle
George W.

Hiram Hessle
James

Katherine E.
Lloyd Martin
Mary D.

Nancy Caroline
Patricia Ann
Penelope
Re 11a Kay
Richard M.

Scott M.

Thomas M.

Kilter T.

Dickson, Daniel
James
Dill, Mary
Dlllahunt, Louis
Dillon, Emu
Dlmmetta, C, C.
Diatel, Donald
Stephen D.

Dixon, J. Noah
Nancy
Noah

Dock, Agnes
Robert

Docks rty, John
Dog an, Elisabeth
Dolman, Maude
Domesday Survey
Dorns, Mary I. , Mrs.
Donald, Grace
Dooley, Clea
Mary E.

Doss, Margie
Double, Cecil
Douglas, Ployd
Dover, Ella
Downes, Frances Mrs.
Downing, Sarah J.
Downs, Jennis
Draghom, Agnes
Dralge, »ev.

Drake, Charles N.
Joseph
Susan Anne
Draner, Andrew
Dray, Mercides
Driscoll, Bonnie
Ducy, Jane
John

INDEX

221

222

222

195, 221, 222
221
221

223, 22b, 225
222
221
222
222
222
22 3
223
222, 223
221
221
28
28
316
Ul
62
Ii06
2ii7
21*7
371*
131
37b
no
no
351
399
159
290
333
385
333
333

Duke, James 153

Martha M. 155

Dulaney, Leveine 63

Dunkards 10

Dunn, George V. 55

Harriett (Carder) 102

Harry A. 102

Thomas 102

Dupuy, EHtabeth (Stone) 201

George Ruffin 201

Dustin, Asenath (Hurlbert) 105

Bee hi as 105

Ethel 385

Hyrum Nephi 109

Roxanna Mahala 105

Seth 109

vi mam no

Eads, Joseph J, Rev, 66

Eary ( Eury ) , Abram 2

Widow 2

Eaton's Meeting House 396

Ebelsheiser, Caroline 330

Eck, Gian 390

Eclar, Edna 326

Ector, Robert V, 282

Eddlns, Frances (Kranky) 370

Eder, George n

Edgren, La von 387

Edwards, Isis Leota 332, 333

Lavi C. 393

Eignoire, Byron 326

Forest 7, 326

Eller, Ernest Carl 56

Elslmlnger, Armlda 326

Col. 326

Eldridge, Thomas 308

Bllars (Ellers), Henry 1

377

Margaret

1

373

Eller, A. J,

371

2b 8

Abraham 13,

53,

5b.

58,

^9

122

60,

82

98

Abram

SB,

60,

63

122

Absolom

b5,

b6,

CJD

rv»

se

371

19>

Absolom T.

b9

no

Adam

35,

38,

39

395

Adda laid

128

222

Addis

132,

375

lb6

Adolphus Hin

65,

273,

27b

222

Albert J.

85

3

Albert Sidney Johnson

27b

388

Albina

78

135

Aldan R.

227

285

Alexander Hamilton

25b

285

A ley

82.

371

l«r. Alio*

ft.

ft.

176

tllor, IlMCfe

1W0

1W0

9 ns co fror*

71s

a1m4o

176

•00 lob

175

AlAlM B.

?66

bom v.

•S

AlnMo «.

W7

•yron

775

AlpOo

76

•yroo ja.|lM

717

Alpta

126

Wmn Mr. 07

265

Alton S.

m

Col no

136,

ITW.

175

Aloorto

132

Col nr r.

132

Am*u 6),

us.

o«.

in

CakUo A,

•5

Am- u Jono

WT

Cor 1 too U01

275

Aotrooo

166

Coro ii no

U7.

200

Aatrlc* 16),

ift.

Ift.

167

Coro U m ElUn

126

Mr

176

Corrlo

1ft

^r.« m. 1ft.

1*.

U*.

in

Coootoo

ft

^ ft. ft.

ft.

wo.

W1

Colter! oo 5,

6.

U>.

a

ft.

ss.

67

a, 71, 7*.

)7,

ft.

76.

M

Ar*ollw

1ft

ft, 60,

6S,

*6.

67

Am

127

Cotter loo (Moo)

1

Am B.

*1

Cotter too Uelr>‘«

ft

Am Cmlyf

7*7

Cotter loo tertte

a.

m

am* at»«

m

Cooil JocO

266

Atom Hvi»r (Imtofcoi

r)

«

Coo 11 U

2ft

Amo t.

60

CterUoo 1.

264

Amo ferlo

T,

•

CterUo

ft.

1ft

Amo f.

Cterloo A,

61

AMla

62.

m

CterUo 7,

56

Artol

ns

ClorUo J.

217

inter

•5

CterUo I,

262

Art Mr U

66

CM00007 K.

W6

AriMr Uotoo

m

Choo lor J,

f<5

amo 11 NUr

131

CHrlaUo* 1,

),

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a.

))

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266

s*.

6).

ft.

W26.

US

Aooy T.

77

CtelotlM (Cfcrtou

MM)

)•

w.

ft

fttrt«n

30

W76.

us

UMfT

t

Qhrtolloo A.

62

ternoll CUoolow*

ft.

707

Chrtotlm, foolly of W

OM Co.

W26

tort 1

W))

drtoUHor

wi.

W27

teolrtoo

m

CfertoUfter «.

2U

loc«y Itm

717

Clooro

1ft

BofvJaoA n

ft.

*2.

126

Cloro

ft

ftonjMln frMfelln

66

CUro telU

7<7

•oo'ooi* *111

766

CUro *oro

U5

•ornloo

in

Cloro or# ft

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lorry

6)

Clortmo

W6

•ortho AlUo

W)

CUrlooo

7T,

76

••nte C.

W6

ClMft tori

ift

•ortho %i»

777

CUT

ft

•oUMl JoOA

7)0

CUolord 137,

1ft,

16),

202

•othlM

127

20)

•01007 (IOI07)

IT,

TO,

77

ClooUrt 1.

2)0

•onto

ft

CllMoo X

A2

•onto Jtfl 0

W7

ClyOo tlolro

757

•olllo Jo on

aw

V4 rroMoo

U5

I* 50

er, Daniel

13

Eller, Elizabeth (Bigler)

51

Daniel M.

61

Elisabeth C.

57

David 3, 1*,

16,

37, 38,

laO

Elizabeth (Dick)

27,

162, 161*

Ul, 51*,

63,

65, 67,

68

Elizabeth (Friend)

1*3

75, 77,

78,

82, 125,

126

Elizabeth Jr.

28, 29

138, 139,

166,

173, 171*,

181*

Elisabeth ( Rooker)

1*5, 1*6

189, 190,

191,

192, 252,

272

Elizabeth Ray ( Vannoy)

78

David Buxton

251a

Ella Phelps

227

David S.

77

Ellen

78,

175, 286

Dean Hill

287

Elsie Cleo

56

Dee M.

61

Elvie (Elivira)

185

Della

55

Emily

132

Delilah

127, 128,

131

Ena

1*3, 1*1*,

59, 60

Delilah Oasia

87

Emma Chloe

289

Delphla

127

Emmett

132

Dexter

253

Emory

63, 132

Diana Marlene

265

Ennis

139

Dolly

11*0

Enoch

1*2, 1*1*

Donald

139,

217

Enos

1*2,

1*1*, 51

Donald Dale

229

Eric Daniel

21*1*

Donald Joe

229

Erls Jean

21*3

Donald V.

1*1*

Ernest McNeill

81,

278, 285

Dora

1*6

Ernest Welber

263

Doratly 9.

56

Estelle

66, 68

Doris Helen

62

Estes H.

217

Dorothy Uiclle

229

Esther

13

Dorris

20 1*

Ethel Cerene

56

Douglas Made

230

Ethel Joyce

280

Dwight

231a, 2li3,

2iaia

Eugene

205

Earl

26L

Eugene Vaughn

133

Earl J.

61

Eunice

132

Edmond Lee

252

Eve 5, 8,

9, 12,

16, 32

Edna

61

Evelyn Elisabeth

136

Edna Frances

62

family of Grayson

Co., Va.

1*26 - 1*29

Edna Merce

56

family of Monroe Co., Ind.

1*30

Edson C.

193

family of Algau Diet. Germany la33

Edson Christy

231,

239

F. A.

1*1*

Edward Britton

280

Famsey (Fanny)

173

Edward E.

81,

286

Fanry

55. 78.

179, 181*

Edward Eldon

253

Fanny C.

127

Edward Emerson

56

Femahm Karri on

1*7

Edward Everett

80,

81, 281*,

285

Fernando Cortes

1*6

Edwin Cicero

275

Flo Marjorie

2 1*2

Err is

139

Flora Ellen

56

Eleanore

199

Florence Athey

235

Elisa

59, 63.

66

Floyd E., Colonel

21*0

ElisaDeth (Elisabeth)

5, 8,

9

Floyd E., Jr.

21*1

10, 12,

13,

15, 26,

27

Franas (Francis)

1*8

29, 30,

31,

32, 36,

37

Frances

50, 66

39, 111,

U2,

1*5, 50,

67

Frances Martha

239

77, 78,

79,

126, 127,

128

Frances Pauline

219

136, 138,

U*0,

lial, 175,

201

Frances Sanders

283

Elisabeth Am

28 2

Francis

85, 1*31

Elisabeth (Bessie)

201

Frank

1*6, 181*

651

ar&i

ler, Prete *.

217 tiler, Helen teth

?06

Fretelln Sur

*1.

2ft

tentereon

T7,

137

Prerir Ur. Plate

?T0,

776

tentereor u#

ell

133

Pre* Sherrill

m

tenrtette Pi rylale

trt

Preterit*

t.

3#

626.

WT

henry 1.

).

6.

«.

u.

13

Practice

D#

51

13.

16.

15,

36.

TT.

)1

lei liter

§7

)3.

w.

67,

51.

55.

60

telen hoe#

62

tt#

65.

66.

6T,

135,

136

jeer*# 1 to 6,

*.

7.

u.

1$

127.

166.

1T2,

IT).

1T6.

636

31. w.

A.

57.

66 to

WT.

630

«. U5.

17T.

W6.

WT.

W«

tenrp C.

126

627

%«7 C. 6*.

ft.

62

teorpe Jr,

*5.

66

teerp CL*

262

teorje Mcteel

I#

J.

6 to IT

tenry ClUe

62

20, A.

32.

33.

53.

ft

tenry ter tee

76

5T. *.

«.

ft.

At.

ft

tenry 1.

125

75, 77.

•1.

*7.

w.

M

tenry terriee

126

*6. 136.

m.

U6.

IT).

176

tenry Helm

270

633

terwyelle

1ft

ten# Klcheel, f

enllp

6 te 16

%nur Lee lie

165

ten# -

ft.

176

terwy (teme

9 >

66

tenu

21?

telUe

77

0*mi4

til

leer

67

terel* D.

206

terton

176

terel 4

m

66.

TO)

terel 1 Stefatee

no

teen 6

306

tereH imgtm

2)0

tern tetep

206

hr*luw 1a lee

216

Xte

66.

177

temrvte

169

!m teete

278

Ocrtmte ;#m

62

Ire Unite

ttl

31*^#

m

Ire 0.

66

SUM# te-tlne

227

Irene lie

U1

teeee

761

Irene

66

teeee teepteel

2T5

Irene ft.

136

*7

!>•

leehelie

61.

51.

Ui

tedleh

67

I* reel Oh rile

172.

1*6#

31*.

2»

Keen eh

u.

116

• • letter* ef 610,

615,

620

tMMl UK

67

W)

UmC ftlleebelh

6T

3.

37)

tenef »rd

132

3. H.

137

ter lews

6}

Jeu Prv*

fl?

he roll PreeH

218

iete tens ley

*)

hero Li OUe

270

7 ere terny

36T,

130

terrld l leehelle

)7

Jectey

25)

Kerri eon

T7.

627

3eeeh ■.

2)1

terry

137

3ee«n 2,

6,

5.

7,

12

ter#e B.

Q

u.

U.

15.

20.

36.

27

K«^r W. W.

m.

1ft.

1*T.

1ft

We

»•

)).

A.

)T.

W

1H.

176.

1*T.

252

<0.

5) te 6),

16.

77

tereep

137.

m

*6,

136.

137.

127.

UO.

1)1

tereey letter* wt

60*

UT.

137.

UO.

in.

1T5.

2 37

Kerrey tele#

216

ieeneellte tee

266

tepee B.

16

7etee 60.

66.

67.

«o.

136.

137

teeel tell

266

IT).

I".

ITT,

1T7.

1*6.

1ft

w, m, m

b52

INDEX

er, James A.

bb Eller, John F, Stinson

67

James Allen

76,

253

John G.

85

James Anderson

215

John Harvey

230

James C.

bb

John Jr.

77

James Calloway

18b

John Leslie

265

James Carlton

27b

John Melcher

2,

3

James Edvard

b7

John Quincy

196,

226

James H.

L0,

bl,

b31

John Valentine

257

James Horton

176

John W.

b9,

50,

58,

61

James Luke

131

Jonas

61

James Madison

85,

371

Joseph 13, 15,

37,

38,

b2.

bb

James Rooert

13b

b5,

b9.

50

James Rollard

268

Joseph Alvin

136

James W.

b6,

b30

Joseph Skirton

283

James T.

128

Joseph D.

126

Jan Jiith

26b

Joseph F.

61

Jane

17b,

252

Joseph Ingram

b7

Jane Louise

229

Joseph Johnson

13b

Jane (Montgomery)

76

Joseph Judson

267

Janet

62

Joseph L.

132,

133

Janice

253

Joseph Oscal

272

J«7

59

Joseph W.

b6

Jean Louise

20b

Josephine

U9

Jennie

139

Joshua

39,

bo,

139

Jesse 79, 127,

139, 187,

189,

195

Judith Lee

265

232,

253

Judith Merle

2bb

Jesse Daniel

265

Ju<$y Elisabeth

283

Jesse F.

76,

81

Judy K^y

229

Jesse Franklin

l«b,

216,

232

Julia A.

127,

199

263. 272,

277,

278

Juliana

127

Jesse H.

127

Junius Arthur

280

Jesse Peter

56

Junius Carlton

281

Jill deLuoersac

2bb

Katherine

128

Joan Louise

218

Katherine Laxton

287

Joel

59

Katheryn

61.

62

Joel A.

128

Kathleen R.

256

Joel W.

59

Kenneth Harvey

227

Johan*

b9

Kirby Luke

133

John 2 to 6,

8, 9,

12.

15 to

Kirby Luke Jr.

13b

18, 20,

25 to 28

. 32,

38

Ladema

131

b2, b8,

b9, 53 to 55,

58

Lady M.

b9

59, 63,

65, 69 to 87,

97

Lafayette

8b.

128

137, 138,

139, 166,

172,

173

Lambert

b3

187, 193,

28b, b27,

b29,

b30

Lancelot W.

256

John A.

61,

66

Laura

b9,

67

John Alvin

267

Leander

128,

lbO

John Ashley

82

Lee

lbO

John B.

99

Lena

61

John, Bible of

7b,

75

Leonard, family of

32

John Carlton

270,

276

Leonard ( Lenard )

5,

5,

6,

7

John Christian

81,

286

8, 9, 1?,

lii,

15,

2b,

32

John Cleveland

18b,

232

52,

53,

6b,

163

John Clinton

62

Leroy

218

John D.

b7

LeRoy Fulton

287

John Detfalden

27b

Lester

lbO

65)

lar, La# tar C.

16)

Ellar, Hart la

66

UflM

*

Ralil1a

6S» 79

Lillian Watfclna

*8

Mat Via tilth

unu

756

MatlMaa

OS 1)8

Una Ilk

ilk

Hary U. 7T,

Ua

61.

65, 66

UMU

UT

n. TS,

T6.

78,

175, 176

uor« tMM

TS6

177, 178,

Ul.

U6,

UT, U9

LsU

61

161. 167,

166,

167,

16* in 167

Un«« D.

66

170, 177 is 176, U4. 189, 777

LmIm

kO,

ITS,

106

Hary lla

U6

Laalna

786

Haty ami

178, 179

IaU N»m)

760

Hary C.

61

Loaall florid

67

Hary Carolina

188

ItMTJ

176

Hary Carolina 'Ta<

T«y) 188.

196. 197.

UelLi 1,

7*

>79

ImMi

)T.

68

Hary Ca marina

99. U7

61

Hary t.

175

Lm<7 Jam

757

Hary til tana in

•1.

781, 785

Ucy Ma* r»

61

Hary Tana

69. in

late

ui, u?.

in

Hary latnartna

781

ua

UT

Hary Laalaa

719

Uk

706

Hary l»clr*te

91. 51

UlUU

66

Hary H,

55

IrMa

55

Hary Harln

TV

Lru

14)

Hary ml la a

175

.y-nr k|Mi

7)0

Hary Orinan

111

■. c.

85

Hary (felly)

76,

166. 180

Mil

1)6

Hary 7,

76)

Hafcla kU

16

Hary (aarva >

n

Han*

m

Hail

66,

61. 09

U. it.

5).

60

Ran

15)

Ra«*la

166,

AX

Hr*toa

788

Mllntt

67,

IT)

la Hor 7r.

6

"•ay r«r

166

HolrHar Br.

6

Hary* rot

®.

05,

UT

HalaHatr

16

1)5

Ha ter (HolrHar)

7.

6. ))

Mar*.r.l Jam

m

Horonin

177

• arfarat UhIm

78?

Harln

7))

ikrtMAUi

u

HorU (Ha lllaa)

7».

>6. A)

lUffiiftto

704

Hlchaal 1, 6,

16.

)).

65. 6))

IUrt» 5, 0, 9,

u.

u.

16

HlHal C.

7J4. m

».

60

HllAra* frsm

766

Harta «.

75)

HlMr«4 Li Ulan

76)

Hart •«

ITS

Hi liar* Hamf orH

1)5. 06

IkrtM kb+c\em

6T

viaam

6)1

Hart mi Carlta*

m.

786

Ha 11 la

788

Rar% iUiMkr

765

HolUa 0,

756

Har% Uirvm

766

Hally

66

Hanna 61, T9, 86,

176.

UT,

14.

Horrta l/Hrla

775

Hanna Ca marina

m

Hoaaa

IT)

Hartna C Wna*llaa

w.

771

Hynla

66, 781

Hanna 1.

u.

59

i)rtU U

756

Han ha kmvb

Iff

•**7 )T, 61.

61.

*0.

175. 178

Hanna Haara

787

U). UT,

U7.

186.

189, 706

Hanna Raff

7«7

708, 1)5

INDEX

Ler, Nancy Jane

8*) Eller, Rachel (Casey)

b5

Nancy Mildred

135

Ralph

278

Nannie

63

Ralph Gordon

2b 2

Nannie C.

58

Raynon Earnest

62

Nannie Clyde

272

Raymond

239

Nathan D.

60

Rebecca 13, b2,

53,

60,

173,

176

Ne Ilford

62

Rebecca Ann

265

Nellie

50

Rex Estes

217

Nellie M.

253

Richard

205

Nellie May

255

Richard warren

250

Newton D.

61

Robert

07,

139

Nora

56

Robert Arthur

2b 2

Nora G.

bb

Robert Earl

135

Nora Hay

56

Robert Laird

217

0. T.

bb

Robert Lewis

136

Octaria

1*9

Robert M.

18b

Opal

iib

Robert Miles

135

Orien Denton

62

Robert Morris

2b3

Orin

b3

Roger Floyd

2b 2

Orlando Sydney

263

Roger Verne

265

Oecal Pulaski

278

Rolls

2 52

Oscar

lbO

Ronald Leroy

217

Otis R.

196

Rosa

50,

132

Otis Reader

2b9

Roy Wellington

232,

26b

P. P.

bb

ftiby

bb

Pansy

275

fciby Cathryn

62

Patricia Lois

268

ftjfus

86,

186,

b28

Paul

62, 275

Russell Leroy

218

Pauline

bb

Ruth

278

Peter 3, b.

5,

7,

0. 9

Ruth America

272

10, 12,

13,

15,

16, 17 to

fcith EUsabeth

251

32, 3b,

55,

6b,

69, 7? to

Ruth Evelyn

282

75, 77,

81,

82,

85 to 88

Sadia Hannah

62

96, 97,

130,

136,

139, lbl

Sallnda

50

Ui2, 162,

16b,

166,

170, 172

Sally

50,

132

17b,

178, 28b

Sally (Jeffries)

51

Peter (Biole of)

27

Sally (Reynolds)

82

Peter, family of

17

Saloae

13,

59

Peter Colonel

86

Samel

67

Peter H,

13b

Samel F.

65,

66

Peter Jr. 25,

29,

30.

12b to 129

Same 1 H.

62

Peter McNeill

286

Saphronie

86

Peter McNeill Pfohl

81, 286

Sarah 13, b2,

50,

55,

50.

61

Phelia

127, 128

63, 66, 125,

131,

138,

b31

Phi Up

b 2, b5

Sarah B.

b3

Phineaa

272

Sarah (Burklt)

b 2

Phinehaa

128

Sarah Caroline

78

Phoebe

b7

Sarah Elisabeth

62

Phoebe C.

be

Sarah King

131,

133

Polly

186

Sarah (Saloae)

57

Pulaski V.

b7

Sharon Rebecca

283

Oulncy A swell

203

Sheldon Charles

26b

R. 0.

lbO

Siaeon 69, 72,

7b,

01,

05,

86

Rachel 1*8, 79,

05,

175,

185, 28b

139, 177 to

188

, 191

252

b26, b27

269,

277

mi

•to

J.

:+rt.

ttmf

Trmr CtowltH
fmU Mmi
Ty**tol OH

1 fcw
TUUd*
fuiu

TlfflKlt

l**. 7*.

HrflfcU * Um
nmnit ih
HrfUtU )n«
TlrftMi u»rr
TlrflM*

*.

HHi t.

•«ltor

iklur

to’vtoU cu«

i»«ur

tnxilm WO. u.

1*. 177.

in.

Mllll*. A.

•n in«-

• Mo

iwo
«t?

W7«.

1)7, W7t. 4)0
k)

Ml

7f. L74, 177
66

77, M

hi* n, §6

>• 15. n

u. n. ua

n

75, W4
711
757

41. U4, It)

m

w

771
A
I7t, IM
Uk
70k
705
M
Ilk
Wt
77t

m. U7
57

707, 701, 177
177, wt. m
41

tn

1)5
lit
J*
75
m
77. 140
777
1W
W)
WTO
47

m

». 77, 7t

1)7 to 140. 177
177, IM, |t)
704, 717, 757

in

700

W55

Iltor, OkitU

719

tfllllM 7.

W§

■ till at «. ), 4,

to, w.

W)

7W, *>.

wot

•A 111 to •tollvoe

in.

7W

•1 111 a* torrl***

95

Mllltto tonry

54

miUM Trtoil

775

AIUm Mtok&^rto*

n

mU* mr U

7to

*toy

ua

Ml Hit

4)

tfllUt TWttot

60

Milil* toifaH

iw

m:jm* to tori*

744

Ml It to

W5

MlMAkfVf t.

755

UiAtrUA

U*

ftllUtt, Ijm

157

Bto

157

UUi (I. Ur', Tttor

79

UUto UUlm) AnHi

45

ton- X

45

«*f? 7.

45

Ml ito

45

urn

45

ftiWr- 'Cl tor), to— «H

n

dltotorik, to.

m

IH. to to*

175

IrtetMto, tot •. , f— liy if

)J4

lto*Uto, U ■. f tolly tf

Ttolto (Stot«H)

)t0

UlM. IllUteU

714

4rt, TW» to*.

70

InM, mm imr

1U

CtoU* t. (toll)

110

l««r«U

Ul

torry ft.

704

toto*

Ul

tottor

155

itotoUto

Ul

1 tor toy ft.

*4

OMtol •.

)to

PlltolU, U|i«k

m. tn.

)*t

Witof

ft7

IliUtMtt

m

'totfy, C«towl

m.

400

r«rto. to r*H

1)0

tor toy. >*«•

«

r«rr,

to.

75

tm, L'r+sm

•1

Atoaarator

Ul

Clear*, f—lly *f

m

tot It*

Ul

b56

Faw, Julia

INDEX

181 Flick, Billie

239

Juliana

91

William

lb3

Lillie

181

Flora, Jacob

13

Thomas

181

Flory, Susanna

58,

63

Uriah

181

Fonda, Lola Lela

lib

Vina

80

William B.

lib

Fee, Elizabeth

297

Ford, Martin

115

George 312 , 297 , 305,

307

Forrest, Beatrice B.

256

Parnell 297, 305,

307

Lee B.

256

Rachel

297

Forrester, Alverda

181,

361

Ruth

297

Forsland, Rue

223

Thomas 312, 29b, 297, 307,

311

Forssell, Judith

250

Ferguson, Allen

169

William

250

Gordon

b05

Foster, Edmond W.

85

Nellie

b05

John

360

Rebecca

b05

John B.

356,

360

Smith, Rev.

bOl

Joy Gladys

229

Ferretto, Reno

121

Roy M.

62

Fields, Fred, family of

275

Foti, Pauline

281

Homer A.

11*9

Fouts, Henry

3b,

35

Fight, Catherine

16

Leonard

25

Henry

16

Fowls, Daniel G. , Gov.

201

Peter

16

Fowler, Mary

327

Fincher, William

35

France, James D.

22b

Fiacus, Clyde R. , family of

260

Franklin, Robert

37b

Fisher, Abraham C., family of 257,

258

Ruth F. C.

37b

259,

260

Fransen, Nora

38b

Elizabeth

57

Frazier Nancy (Harvey)

158

James 2,

3

Frederick, Martha C.

101

Stanley

325

Fredericktown, Ohio, town of

36,

37

Susanna

57

Fremont, John C.

193

Fitch, William E.

353

French, Burrell

212

Flannigan, Elizabeth 38, bl,

52

Thomas

298,

299

Francis 51,

52

Friend, Elizaoeth

b3

Francis F.

52

Fronk, Mae

212

Janes

52

Frost, Douglas T.

205

John

52

Earl

205

Leonard

52

Mary Jo

205

Mary Ann

bl

Fugate, James B.

288

Peter

52

Fuller, Ethel

388

Sarah

52

Mr.

bb

Sarah C.

b6

Fullum, Henry P., family of

383

Fletcher, Alpha E.

126

Miller (Walker)

383

Benjamin F.

Calvin

126

111

Gainer, John

316

Columbus C.

126

Gaither, Edward

12

Herbert Calvin

111

Eleanor

12

Louise Jane

126

Gallatin, Albert

315

Madeline (Evans)

111

Gallman, Jacob

lb3

Rebecca L.

126

Oalloway, Richard

291

Thomas J.

126

Vemice Ehickla

205

William C.

126

Gamhill, Catherine

361

William Eller

126

Gamble, Alberta G.

257

Winfield Scott

126

Dorothy

257

~M\», i. f.

?«T7

Craaaa, Klran

1*7

r\oy4 F.

2< 7

Harjr

318

Sarah (Caldaall)

?<7

'uurtMi

1*7

3wo, John Ha». 176, J»2,

395.

397

jranrlll#, Aarl of

31

130

jray, Hat Via Cora

313

Oardnar, Lola Eltsina

*7

llaina Eva

313

iaraar, *+ry F.

155

Halos

135

flMWtt, Kanr

UO

Jooaph F.

313

OarraiH, Jam* Ooa.

315

Linda

135

Qarot, F.

0

Harjr h*tta

333,

36)

Fradarleb Jr.

56

h.*aall Jr., fanlly of

376

Hatj

56

rsoMo

135

Suaas

53

Orqrtaal, ArUur 0.

13*

3* a rhart, Htldrod

316

Jans# H.

13*

jartry, ColOjr *a«

317

Jama Tam

13*

Janlea iala

317

Joaaph -art 4 E.

13*

Jaannotto

317

Lwra C.

375

Harlan Ursj

317

U<7 V7

U*

Jaorf* , Inu

365

Hillard l.

13*

Oortar, Christian

13

Hobart T.

13*

Jacob

13

373

MHaal

13

Tlrflnla 6,

13*

3>rtali, inm

9*6

dlUlan lUor

373

3ara*r Bapilat Fratliran *,

10.

11

•nil tan J.

13*

Oamantonr , tattlo of

U3

•n Ilian A.

13*

Otfcha , Harr lr*

3®0

Vajrtill, Abacall

1*9

Utaon. Joal

73

Am

99

HI tart, Irta

337

Harbara

100

Olios, <aRM

395

irlifMO

96,

99

Jam

395

Cathorlna

97,

",

133

0111, Fa/a*

)**

’Hvtd

97

IUUm

3 U

KUiabath

99,

100

Oil lotto, Francos

331

Fbraaea In (a linos)

99

Ollllan, loa

jn

loo nr#

99

Oltchoy, John

3

btrp H.

99

Qodf ray, ftllsha

195

Oaorgo a. 96,

99,

1*9.

150

DoaOtUi, warn# A.

363

Hawaii

96,

99

loot, AlUo F.

1*0

Hannah 9.

99

lohon S.

1*0

Jaarnatto

99

teoaott, HUi

367

John

99,

150

lothran, land L.

*0

Jaaaf a

150

UeliTi

*0

Jail ana '.Nil la Awl

99

Ooald, Clooo

165

Lori

96,

1*9

3rtff, Hjrra

3<7

Lr *ia Alloa

61

3rahao Orlooa Fanlly

315

l<r*U J.

99

Irahar, Ttanas

96

Hartha

150

3 rant , Anna 3a bah

3W.

330

Harjr Aw

99

Annaaba

WO.

331

Haaoy

99

Janos

370,

331

Hlrhaol

97,

1*9

John Jr.

331

HleKaol 9.

99

Harrsry ( Salih)

330

Oban

99

■oah

330

Chrlattw fWanrlor)

100

OljrtM* 3.

330

Fat low a

1*9

Oranalllo, Karl of

31

Fa tor

1O0

3r*wa, Flora

1*7

folly

99

U<8

INDEX

Graybill, Polly (Stoker) 149

Parley J. 99

Salathiel 149

Samuel F. 99

Sarah 99

Sexton 99

Sidney R. 100

Simeon Peter 98

William I (L) 99

William Lenore 99

Greene Academy 315

Greenfield, Anna C. 318

Greenhalgh, Peter 104

Greenwood, Joseph 22

Greer, Elijah 377

Greider (Garber), John 11

Griffin, Cyrus Lee 245

Karol Lee 245

Grisso, Susan 58

Susanna 57

Grist, William 2U, 33

Grub, Conrat 28

Grunderson, Wilhelmena 216

Gunderson, Virgin P, , family of 268
Gunther, Sarah 385

Hackett, A. A. 178

Haller, Elizabeth 71

Gottfried 71

Halliday, Bertha K. (VanNoy) 383

Wallace family of 383

Halstrom, Fannie 382

Hamblin, Violet L. 270

Hamby, Clive 174

Mary J. 174

Hammond, John 33

Hammond Strife land 12, 33

Hand, Henry 396

Hank, David 73

Hankley, Elnora Allie 56

Hansford, Jane 378

Hanson, Louis 212

Zoe 121

Hanth, Heinrich 89

Magdalena 89

Hanwick, Mary C. 368

Harding, Edith (Walker) 383

Elizabeth J. 113

Lyman W., family of 383

Harkins, Charles 118

Jesse 118

tyrtle 118

William 118

Harless, Susanna 275

Harper, George L. 331

Harper, Maud

328

Mildred

62

Harris, Dallas Mrs.

156

Frederick W., family of

379

Halley K.

282

Martha

101

Rowland

39

Thomas A. Capt.

237,

238

Harrison, William Henry

36

Harrop, Donald R.

43

Paul W. 6,

32,

43

Hartig, Phyllis

22h

Hartman, Adam Lee

228

Jerry Lee

228

Leroy Gene

228

Randall Gene

228

Steven Leroy

228

Harvey, Allie

153

Catherine (Koons)

155

David

154

Edward L.

154

Eliza

154

Elizabeth

152

Harrison H.

155

Henry

154

Hu Ida

154

Jacob

146,

153

James

152

Jane

154

Joel

154

John

156

Mahlon D.

153,

154

Martha

154

Mary E.

155

Miles

154

Milton

154

Pleasant

155

Randolph

156

Theodosia

154

Vickie

154

William 145,

146,

155

Hash, Frank E., family of

281

Haskins, Mary

221

Hass, Johannes

90,

91

Marie B.

91

Mr.

9

Hassinger, Margaret

287

Hathaway, Doris

391

Haunton, Gertrude F.

3 44,

345

Thomas T.

34 4,

345

Hawkins, Susan

173

Hawley, Dorothy White

342

George S.

342

Jessamine (White)

342

Joseph

342

INDEX

Hawthorne, Elizabeth M.

221

Hiet, Alice

107

Grace

2li7

Hightower, Carl

120

Ulysses

ail

Hill, Alice

212

Hayden, Arm

303

A lmon Lloyd

215

William

303

Amanda

08

Hayes, Betty Jean

391

Anna Maria

2 Hi

Burl

182

Arthur F.

215

Charles Ray

391

Cecil Dennis

21ii

Elizabeth K.

391

Jennie Leona

211i

George W.

327

Josiah Wesley

2 lit

Johnson W. , Judge

79

Mahala

97

Nettie (VanNoy)

391

Marlin R.

211i

Obe

132

Maxine ferle

390

Parkin K., family of

391

Ohmar

21ii

Ruth LeVon

391

Rooert Lewis

2 111

Stephanie

391

Verda May

2 lli

Hazlett, Gloria Joan

2L8

Walter H«

215

Heady, Sarah Ann

Ii9

William H., family of

335

Heald, Sarah

lOli

Hiller, Emily

222

Healton, Alonzo

159

Hlmley, Peter

53,

60

Edna E.

159

Mine, Baamel

300

Jesse C.

159

May

300

John A.

159

Hitchcock, Marjorie D.

261i

Josie

159

Hix, Howard

2li5

Mary Ann

159

Ronald Curtis

2li5

Minnie C,

159

Hof f acre , Sarah A.

155

Healy, J^rum C., family of

379

Hoffln (Hoffner), Chrlstena

69

Heck, Nancy

316

Hoffman, John

95

Hedrick, Lucinda

156

Hogan, Regena

100

Heilman, William

123

Holbrook, J. C.

Il06

Held, Emma Margaret

373

Holliday , La Vets Mrs,

112

Peter

373

Holman, John

28

Heifer, Jacob

Ii8

Holmes, Nancy Lee

33li

Henderson, Daniel

322

Richard P,

220

Hendricks, Catherine

368, 378

Holroyd, Hazel P,

?li<>

Drusilla (Dorris)

378

Honeyman, Ell

1*3

Franklin D., family of

379, 380

Hook, Alexander

327

James

378

Alice Marie (Guy)

328

Richard Charles

209

America

30L

Robert Charles

209

Amy (Clark)

326

Royal Campbell

209

Angelins

323

71 late (Walker)

379

Annaple

292

Henry, Rebecca M.

62

Anna Subah

322,

323

Herrin, Derid

350

Anna Subah (Annzube)

317, 320,

322

Herring, Vienna

318

Anna Subah (Grant)

320

Hersberger, Catherine

57

Annzube (Anna Subah)

321

Hertzell, Forrest

59

Arrabella

295

He slop, Oertrude

387

Arthur

317, 318,

323

Hess, Barbara

3

Barnett A.

323

Hester, John

353

Beale

303

Hewitt, Qeorge W.

158

Benedict

U6

Martha

158

Benjamin

305

Hickerson, Litte

3*i

Carolina

310

Sarah

35!i

Caroline (Whitten)

303

Hickman, Josie

159

Carrol Virginia

335

INDEX

Hook, Catherine (Kent)

318

Hook, James Daniel

30b

Charlotte

317

James (Grant) 19b,

322,

32b,

325

Charlotte (Tharp)

322

James Hawley

3b3

Claude J.

328

James Madison

325

Cynthia Ann

326

James Philip

3b 2

Daniel 301, 302, 303,

318, 321,

322

James Samuel 299,

301,

302,

30b

Daniel Jr.

30b

311,

31 3

Earl Alfred

331

James W. 313,

315,

321,

3b0

Edwin G.

328

James William

337,

3b0

Eleanor

316

James William Jr.

3b2

Eli

303

Jennie (Lentner)

330

Ellas

303,

310

Jesse

316,

337

Eliza (Inghram)

318

John 206, 295,

298,

305 to 310

Elizabeth

316

315, 316,

317,

321,

322

Elizabeth Ann

322

326,

327,

330,

331

Elizabeth Jean

332

John Burgess

303

Elizabeth Rachel

310

John L.

310

Elizabeth (Shuman)

322

John Snowden (Snoden)

296,

302

Elizabeth (Ward)

309,

310

306, 308, 309,

310,

311,

313

Emily

30b

John T.

318

Emma

326

John Wallace

331

Enos

323

John, will of

308

Enos Hon.

317

Lincoln

326

Errol Joe

335

Lloyd Thomas

328

Eva Jane

326

Loren a Margaret

33b

Hook Family

2 90to 3bb

Louise

331

Frances

323

Lydia (Shuman)

322

Frank Leslie

337

Madison

303

Fred

328

Manor

290

Fredie

337

Margaret 293,

29b,

305,

322

George

30b

Margaret (bodkin)

323

George William

326

Margaret (Thrasher)

29b

Gladys Marie

33b

Marguerite

338

Green bury

310

Martha

316,

328

Greenbury Simpson

310

Martha Ann

325

Hannah

316

Martha (Crowe)

303

Harry M.

328

Martha I*e

303

Hattie R. (Bechtel)

337,

3b0

Martha (Mattie)

326

Henry H.

303

Mary 29b, 303, 313,

316,

318,

322

Hiram

317

330

Ignatius

317

Mary Ann

325

Isaac

305

Mary Ann (Adams)

318

Isaac S.

310

Mary Davis

299,

30b

Israel 312, 317,

318, 3?2,

323

Mary Elizabeth

325

Jacob

305

Mary Louise

331

James 3, 206,

208, 290 to 322

Mary Iyeth

313,

315

326,

327, 329,

330

Mary (Lyle)

206

James Capt. 3, 290,

296, 313,

31b

Marvin fiuj'T.e

335

315

Matthias

305

James Jr. 293. 297,

305, 311,

325

Max Morris

331

329

Michael David

335

James Jr., Will of

301

Morris (Maurice) Glen

337,

338

James A.

305

Nancy

326,

327

James Chesterfield

335

Nancy (Redmond)

322

James Clarke

291

Nlcho las

305

661

mi

*, Orlr

331,

33?

Hooka. Thran

m.

797,

793

Orlfln of mm

790

dllllaa

7*1

Pumail (PamaU)

VX

Hook' a Conclusion, land

799

Rocha 1

795

Hook's Haflact. land

799

iHUcci

316

Hookua, Christina

3«7

Hatacca (Car Its la)

3??

Noopsa, Claranea

366

Nraln f.

310

Hoorn r, Christian

6b

Noland Horror

378

Ha-tart Hon.

33

ftnoo Virginia

363

Jacob

*.

31.

69

Rjdolph

305

SdMl

33,

51,

166

Solly bachtal

363

Hopkins. Carol

3*0

Sana* Carolina

335

Ho mar, art X.

336

SwmI 795,

306.

316,

316,

Ml

Hurt X.

336

W.

17%

3la/*o H. (Nook)

336

no

Nary Ann

336

Strafe ?N6,

306.

W.

30*.

W

Naarlcd Nook

33k

316, 31T.

316,

Ml,

M),

376

Tatar Noth

336

Sarah (tore***)

303

NodCh, “jaerfa

1<6

Sarah (Clara)

375

Honor of

2*0

Sarah I.

M3

harts

1<6

Sarah Jam

375,

377

Noaall, dial

173

Sarah (IfU)

377.

>*.

375

Ihturt, a lay

)7?

Sarah (Sadia)

3)*,

336

■hbtell, X S.

271

Shadrach

317

Skald Sholdoa

777

Siaoiin, feoUri

17%

TNt it Snith

773

Staphan ?06,

«6#

301,

307,

303

XI Ur

27)

)1*>. 317,

MO,

Ml,

M7.

3?5

Jay S.

770

Staphar Jr.

*>).

M3

Jay troado*

?M.

77)

9mm LaJ^a

335

Paul XiUr

??3

SyUaraa

Ml,

171

hu

773

Thsodora l Ward

7^0

hrtnriU, feaorflana

103

Thonaa 7*0,

m.

m.

m.

317

NxNmi, Xlliateth ( TaJby)

3«7

Tvmi Jaffsraon

3*

Trash J., fan*, ly of

367

TVau I ant

316

Narfarat

117

rvati WMta

363

Vh Ann

117

TKmaa. will of

7R1,

797

dllforl N.

00

Tlr»l«la (Kliar)

3*7.

M9.

330

Huff, John X.

67

Virginia Has

336

•fefflns, am

736

dollars

3M.

333

Jam

736

Mai lacs i.

335

VI Ilian «.

7)6

dollars A 1 lan

335

hftai, Rrlnton

76.

167

dal tar

176

^Uy (Srltania)

101

dal tar Smbs

M?

feist, 9flnmi

101

darran Narnia

3M

hint, Thonaa 1.

157

dllllan

37S,

3?6

Nuntar, *aa, fanily of

3«

dllllaa Clinton

M5

P»s llm D. (Tanhoy)

366

*a( A map la

797

H.ntaiivar, Jacob

76

Buataca "a La

790

fetchlmon, York

367

Monty

790

tydar, Haaal I,

373

lS*rhr^r

791

Triton. Nay

367

Janaa

797

Jsrsalah

791

Too, Idmi

108

Hainan! a 1

790

Inch ran, Xll la

316

Richard Sir it.

790

Sara fitana)

316

U62

INDEX

Ingram, David

28

Johnson, Mark

2k7

Floyd, family of

387

May

255

Inkenberry, J. W.

60

Pearl (Walker)

383

Irons, Sarah

321

Ruth

157

Isenhower, Bernard

388

Shirley

21k

William

2k 7

Jack, Laura

56

William, family of

368

Jackson, Edward

135

Z. T.

133

John

293

Jones, Aaron 0,

391

Kenneth

135

Alexander

137

Marion Elizabeth

228

Amanda

137

Rebecca

135

Ann C,

118

Robert

135

A swell

137

James, Edmund

125

Betsey

118

Jarvis, Elizabeth

108

Celia

139

Jeffries, Sally (Sarah)

51

Cora

137

Jenkins, Billie 7. (Olson)

389

Deborah Ann

222

Charles E., family of

365

Elizabeth

137

Edward 0,, family of

389

Ellen

175

Jennifer

389

F. Bertie, family of

375

Jerry lyn

389

Frances M.

237

Jessica

389

Henry

Ik 5, lk6

Maxine

135

Jacob

137

William E.

389

Katie

137

Jensen, Dorothea C. 102,

103, 105

L. C,

222

Laurence S., family of

383

Lee

132, 137

Nora M. (Walker)

383

Lewis

130

Sybil

382

Martha

137

Jerred, Catherine Jene

268

Mary

137

Russel A ,

268

Matilda A#

117

Jersey Settlement

352 , 39 5

Raymon

63

Jesse, ftith I,

230

Same 1

137

Jessup, Carol Blanch

209

Sarah

137

Dorothy Miriam

208

Wllmer

117

Jesse 3.

208, 23k

William David

222

Johannes, Charlotte Ann

111

Judd, John

122

John and Sarah land

307

Margaret

122

Johnson, Aca F., family of

383

Rhoda (Shepherd)

122

Alexander

18

Tabitha

75

Anna 0. (McNeill)

1*06

Thomas

178

Annie

180

Justice, Eloise

13k

Barbara

31, 21*7

Elizabeth

172

Kampe, Theresa Josepha

3k0

Frank T.

21k

Kara, Ann

71

Gary W.

2k7

Daniel

71

Georgia Caroline

2 80

Esther

71

Grace B.

21k

John

71

Harvey W.

21k

Leonard

71

Isabella F.

kl

Mary

71

Iva

120

Michael

70

John Calvin

38, kl

Peter

71

Joseph A.

28k

Susanna

70, 71

Kristie

2k7

Keffe, Mary

116

In la

133

Keehn, Peter

71

Marian (Eller)

278, 28k

Keller, John Oeorge

335

Eallor, EaVharina «ale<na

335

Elnc, Jana Laa

207

Konp, El lan Ellaaboth

210

Karla EUaaboth

71

EaapVan, I r* Taylor

100

Sarah

1)1

Nathan

106

I inf* Kauntaln, tatlla at )%, 3®,

1«0)

E annody, H*rrl 1

3M

Unary, Kr.

150

■till*

3M

Elroy, Claranca C.

67

font, Ann Nancy

3IB

EllaabeVh

13)

Ann (RalaVon)

310

Elrk, Janaa Earl, fanliy of

270

CaVharlna

310

Joeeph A.

270

Thoui

310

JoeeptUne A.

279

Kaplar, Ni L*a iUunWr

3

Hebei Elaanor

270

Earn, A-Ua

70

Nary India

279

Anna Karla

71

Kagmond Ellar

270

Catharine

71

Tlrclda

279

ChrleVlae

71

Elrthan. Anrla f.

1«

Conrad

72

Million A.

150

Ellaatoth

71

Elrtrpetrlefc, Alnlra

))1

Oeorto

71

KllVoc Von (CaVoevin) Soli

307

Jacob

TO.

71

KlaaUh, Million 0.

352

Joh. Sum

6«

Enapp, Derll

55

Johan Jacot

Ell aafaath

55

Kaf-lalane

6*

Stoman *ueeel

0)

Karla hartara

6«

Slat mar. 1., fanlly of

372

Klehaal

71

Enorr, John

105

Philip

70

Enoa, JamV

3)7

Koalna (Vllljar)

70

Eobla, Jacob

71

Slnoon

6*

Karla Na^lalana

71

Slnoa

U.

69,

71

Eoona, (S Mil*** written Coona,

Vilaailm

69

Coonca, Come, Emm*,

Eonva)

tfllhaln

71

Aha«ail

163.

16)

Eama (Earn), St —on

6*

Aba«all (PltfoVh)

163.

16)

SUIMM 25,

7«,

69.

72

AOrahan U

1*

I# min, Simmim

70

A bool cm

tl* 166.

19

EanrlcA , K* rjr Norton!

22)

Adeline

150

hwl f. Jr.

772,

72)

Albert

170

E ay, K«1 an Dbrlooba

3)5

A lira ( A Ilia )

166,

15)

Bidder, Karvoria L.

Jfco

Allan

166,

167

Ellbouma, EU

115

han D.

1W

Eilby, Atrahan

)T0

benjanln

170

C Lay Von

102

henjantln t .

169

EllaabaU)

)59.

367.

)T0

Nrldfel

165lo 169

Etta

10)

Caiharlno

166, 155,

156

BVVla

365

Char lay

170

Ponrjr

370

Clara C.

1*

Naophrey

370

Coro Soa

170

Jmm

370

teoid

160

John

370

Oaold H.

155

Kary

77*

)*•

370

''a moll (femult, Dmeld) 75,

1L2

Nary Ann (To Ida)

n.

)T0

16). 1U. 10*.

159to 165

Kary (Polly)

370

169, 170,

171

hi bar

370

Ttennla ». (Eunia)

220

Sarah (Sally)

79.

370

*Mmll. will of

160

Mil Han 77,

3*.

367,

370

Dillon

165, 167,

160

VI Ulan Jr.

370

Qoahla

159

Eln< , Char la*

71

Eliaa

76. 165,

167

USh

INDEX

Koons, Eliza E.

155

Koons, Massie (Presnell)

12*3,

163

Elizabeth 12*1,

12*2, 12*6, 152, 162

Matud

159,

21*9

Family of

159 to 171 Mercy

163

Gasper 75, 12*1,

12*2, 12*3, 12*2*, 12*6

Milly

12*1

152, 156, 163 to 171 Nancy

165,

168

George 25, 27,

31, 75, 76, 98

Nancy C.

158

11*1 to 11*6, 158, 159

Nancy Ellen

170

162 to

167, 170, 171, 172

Nathan

12*3,

161*,

169

George Jr.

158, 165

Newton Clay

170

George A.

155

Perry 0.

170

George H.

159

Peter

12*5,

158

George L.

12*6

Philip (Kuntz)

12

George R.

170

Pleasant

152

George, will of

12*1*, 12*5

Pleasant M.

170

Hal lie

159

Polly

12*1

Hannah

12*3, 170

Polly A.

168

Hannah Lewis

170

Rachel

170

Hannah (Millikan) 158

Rebecca

165,

168

Harvey L.

170

Rebecca E.

159

Henry Hi3v 12*6,

152, 156, 161*, 165

Rhea

159

166, 168, 169

Robert

152

Hester A.

158

Robert H.

170

Isaac N.

155

RolUe C.

159

Jacob

12*1, 172

Rosena

12*3,

161

James

153

Sally

12*1

Jasper

16 1*

Samuel 12*3, 155, 156,

161*,

169,

170

Jeremiah

12*3, 161*, 169

Sarah 165,

166,

167,

169

Jesse

170

Shad rack

166,

168

John 25, 73,

75, 91, 96, 98

Susan (Kuntz)

91

12*1, 12*2,

12*3, 12*1*, 156, 162

to Susanna

170

168, 170, 171

Thomas

169

John A.

165, 167

Thomas B.

159

John L.

169, 170

Thomas Benton

170

John M.

155

William 12*3, 161*,

165,

168,

169

John N.

159

William (Kuntz)

220

John R.

155

William Morrison

152*

Joseph

168, 169, 170

William P.

159

Keziah

158

Krault, Barbara

15

liicinda Ray

169

Krogue, Charlotte (Nielson)

109

Main

12*6

Janes Peter

109

Margaret

12*3, 160

Louisa Christina

109

Margaret E.

199

Mari ah (Marie)

156

LaChapelle, Lucy

327

Marianne* (Kuntz)

220

lulu (Smith)

327

Martha 76, 12*3,

12*6, 156, 157, 163

Mike

327

165, 167

Samuel

327

Martha E.

158

William

327

Martha J.

158

Lackey, Alexander

116,

117

Mary 12*3, 12*5,

155, 157, 163, 169

Almarinda F.

117

Mary A.

159

Chios

119

Mary Ann

153

Easter

116

Mary E.

156, 157, 158

Elveann

118

Mary (Eller)l2*l,

12*2, 12*2*, 12*6, 169

James

116

Massie (Massy, Massa) 98, 12*2, 12*3

Janes E.

117

12*6,

12*8, 12*9, 163, 165

Laura

lie

Lackey, Laorl-aa F.

117

Larrtnar, Jennie

330

Umlla

Ilf

John Jacob

331

Hlchml 0.

UP

Leonard, Sarah

16,

67

Mrtaoca

U7

▼aim Una

16.

67

Uc7, Kill* Jam

16

Lewie, Adelaida

360

Lakln (Laakln), Abrahm 796, 311,

313

Dora

135

Atraha* Jr., fadlj of

7*6

Fork Charch

395,

396

honjmlr tor.

313

I vane lie Lee He

71$

John

7*6

John

715

Kart ha (tm> ?96,

313

laomH “aloa

715

Sarah

313

Laatar John

715

Sarah (Nook)

796

Lyal SaFormt

715

LmUiS, Stanley, fml ly of

?K0

Mayor- Arlana

715

Landla, F rank

56

M1U

360

Lam, finance

600

Ml chard

715

Lar«, Mllllm

U

▼lolai Franco#

715

Langf ord, Hr.

607

Mam

715

Lancaton, Umr u 1.

11)

Mm ton

715

Lanhm. HI Ida

717

Milford lari

715

Lara. lUltteU Am

709

tflUim

715

Uihaa, Aaron

136

Li ndeay, aarron F.

106

Catharine

136

Ml Him ft. Jr.

106

David

136

Llppa, KLltabath

607

KlluteU

136

Ha laa 1.

135

Sarah

136

Llah, Harriott, Araalia

106

Laa far, Karla

*0

Harriott Am ( Tripp)

106

Lari lion, Susanna

701

Joaaf h

106

Laa, Kina Faya

760

UttroU, Mar tort a

63

Laarranm, harbara U

709

Thome

63

Carol Jaan

709

Umaoy, Mary

136

Lmaon, Fred H.

136

Uamllan, J. ft. tor.

397.

396

Luton, Mary Am US, 777,

776

Llay •, ' a rah Jam

106

Layno, MI7 J. (T«Jby'

3«

Mai Um 0.

701

Mohan 1. , faaUf of

3W

Lex khan, toft*

373

Layton, Christopher

117

La*|a, David

171

Ha bar Cham

117

Lillian A,

m

Nu Oartlo

111

Kan ha (Nrtlna)

171

Loam, Catherine

16

land, Chat tar

377

Philip

16

Ida

67

Laath, Ralph *.

iss

Jam than

67

Lao, Am

313

Mar fa rot

6

Fanlly

791

^pa«. Jam K.

737

Jama

79)

Lerrlcfc, Ml Him 9, Jr.

101

John

396

Lorn, tom

167

Martha

31)

lorn land, Hamah

109

Harr

79)

tor land ft.

106

Hohorl I.

777

Uokatt, MlUlm Jr.

797.

309,

313

Ml 111m

313

lyath, tory (Hook)

797,

X".

313

Loanar. A If rad

«

Mohan

797.

309.

313

latter, Jam

160

Sarah

797,

309

Lafflar, Imait

67

Sarah (Uklnl

797,

309,

313

La hoar. Atm

16

l#U, Jmm

770

Martha

16

John Jr.

376

htor

16

tory ftohola)

376

Lmly, Suaarnah

16

tolph Jama

FP0

1*66

INDEX

Lyle , Robert

32l*

Messerschmitt, Olen A.

223

Sarah

322, 32l*

Margaret 0.

223

William

321*

Wallace E.

223

Wayne D.

223

Mack, Alexander

10, 11

Meyers, Maude

320

Solomon

66

Michael, Conrad

72

Maclntire, Robert K.

210

Daniel

1*2

Madsen, Anton

107

Henry-

28

Christian

105

Henry Jr.

28

Elisa

102

Miller, Abraham

156

Inger

102

Adam

156

Jacob C. 102,

103, 105

Adeline

83,

372

Pearl

389

Alexander

363

Magruder Family

292

Aley (Hubbard)

83

John 293, 291*,

298, 306

Anna

11*8

Susanna

293

Daniel

162

Maholm, James

32l*

Da rid

78,

138

Jane

321*

Elisabeth

138

Mary

321*

Elton, family of

266,

267

Samuel

321*

George

28

Manning, Charles

203

George W.

83,

372

Marguis, Cornelia

62

Harry

1*01,

1*07

Marion, Lovlsa (Louisa)

76

Henry

1*01

William C.

77

Laura

ie2

Marker, 3etty ( Bars tow)

120

Mary

139

Clairy Elaine

120

Mary (Smith)

315

Pete

120

Monroe

120

Marourt, Eunice

227

Newton

183

Marsh, John

316

Polly (Welker)

11*8,

156

Mast, John

35

Robert L. , family of

365

Mathisen, Agnes Jenett

389

William

315, 1*01,

1*07

A/nes (VanNoy)

388

Millikan, Derault K.

157

Albert H., family of

389

Francis (Frank) M.

157

Emmett James

389

Hannah M.

151*.

158

Michael N., family of

388, 389

Harry B,

157

William M., family of

389

Irene

11*7

Matilda, Caroline Frankey

359

Isaac N.

157

Matrau, Ruth

21*9

J. R.

U*6

Matthias, Edward

11*3

James W.

157

Maxwell, James

132

John R.

156,

157

Larkin

136

Martha (Koons)

155

Luke

136

Mary E.

157

Mitchell

136

Phebe

155

Richard

136

Sarah Jane

157

William

136

Thomas B.

157

Mead, William Jr.

303

William

l'a*

Meek, Karen Louise

268

Minton, Alfred A.

127

Ronald F.

268

Mary

127

Maleon, Alexander

85

Mitchell, Carrol

388

Mattie

85

Catherine L. (Eller)

39,

1*0

Mendlnhall, Caleb

35

Elijah

126

Mercer, Karl M., family of

261*, 265

James L.

81*,

373

Mary Nell

281

Louisa (Luman)

81*,

373

Mere, Irma

338

Maud U

81*,

373

Hesse rschedtt, Era M.

223

Misener, Cora Belle

216

t6?

rm

Moloch*, Evalyn

?13

Mr Carl , ftrU T.

2t3

Mof^hlor, hrten J.

HeCarlay, Elaar

110

Monla, Tircl*

377

Sthol

116

Monala, *Url#

>•1

Mary N.

110

Hontcoos ry , iwtrow

333

ThONM

110

tlllttMl)!

333

Zlblah

100

%Ch

14, ?<?

MoCollaa, Ilian

152

Jam (Coortmy)

333

tills

IQ

Jam 1.

102, 7S2

McConml, Aalarla

02

Now*, Rsllla *Vj

m

ha lay (ftrrwn)

to

tell*

112

John 3«.

to

doom, Alloa

36?

Martha 3«, 39, tO,

tl

Klaanoro

199

MeC ay, haaala

256

ft. Jama Or.

366

MrCmary, : arab A.

96

Joaaph t.

199

MoOalloeh, Jans

220

tail to*

200

Macftaal Jr.

220

Sail* M<r

16?

Tinotljr ftllor

220

Ms ora ha *1, EiUabalh ft.

2«

MeCsiUy, thaari ftllor

265

Norton, -or#

203

filrteS ft. 299,

>x

Kao

W

habort ft.

m

Joaao L.

«.

>a«9 C.

m

ha finals U

276

*1 Ilian h.

265

Norris, QurlMU

316

Nlillan t.

265

BU»1

It)

Na'kanlal, Jaoaa 100, 115,

116

Noonan

316

Jam

100

Marry U

219

John

100

Julia Ann

106

Martha

U5

Maryanal I.

219

Sarah

115

Narjr (ball)

316

IlMah (MeCarUy) 100,

115

ftlcharl

316

Me '• aa 1 1, THraaii ft., faallj of

259

•short f.

369

Mr MU, Kirlcb

299

Morrison, North ft.

2«6

Mrth Jr. 299,

Xt

Nolo, 2N*S4 Sr.

36

MraUanary ( Uanory ), AlsaanMar

363

Mmsry, frl'llla

7 U

Da *14

3n

Moo 17, fell

135

Martha

362

Oil oar N.

135

Sarah

125

Mi Ms toil, K. ft.

257

liaow

L26

Mirtocfc, train*

365

Me iraty, talaa (Ifila)

356

Isons

9

MsI l*alm, riomrn (llanaa)

320

Mirpiftr, Jooorh hsa. J97, >ti.

>95, 600

Mr I ta, Mmari, fanliy of

367

Ml lllao ha*.

39C. 395

Me la a*. John

37?

M.rr*j, harha barter*) 1.

55

Mrfflrtool, Jam

359

Miaffra**, holly

175

Mary

367

• H 1 lf * il

It

Mari

>50

t^rara, Ilian

5t

MeNlllan, Alim

60

Jacob U

76, 16?

Ahtmo Copt.

60

Ratal

13t

OyothU (haamal

60

rbam

162

Mr Atari, Mir* ht.

35?, >59

bait

27t

Met ill alar, Chaa hallo

lit

MrVlal (Da onl front anmator *p»ll*4

hsbort U

lit

IS* net Mr Via 1 Ml lalar fan* ratio*

NeCaUb, ha*.

>99

to a ana taaaa trails It Mr Mall,

Mr.al 1, till aba in Jam

206

McMalU, McMsa l awl MrfeaD

Jonaa C.

206

A lf rai 79,

>75

9ft >«—

202, 206

Alloa

to?

1*68

INDEX

McNiel, Alpha

1*05

McNiel, George Bartlett 81*, 371*

Alva (McNeill)

185

George Rev. 75,

78, 79, 82, 127

Amanda

375

177, 188,

392, 393, 39h, 396

America (McNeill)

1*06

397, 1*00, 1*03

Andrew B.

80

George W. 392,

1*00, 1*03, 1*06, 1*07

Anther (McNeill)

86

George W. Jr.

1*07

Arthur

1*01*

Quy

81*, 371*

Bamum

86

Harriett

127, 1*05, 1*07

of Barra

392

Henry C.

1*01*

Benjamin

1*01,

1*07

Hester

81*

Benjamin A.

81

Irvin

393

Bennan

376

I tel

86

Bessie

1*01*

J . A.

178

Byron

79

James 75, 78,

79, 127, 177, 375

Caroline (McNeill)

375

391*, 1*01,

1*02, 1*01*, 1*05, 1*06

Charity Loren a

80

1*07

Charlotte

1*01*

James Davis

81

Clan of

392,

1*06

James W.

1*06

Columbus

1*07

Jane

1*01*

Cora

371*

Jennie

80

Cora (Brown)

1*06

Jessie 79, 82,

1*01, 1*02, 1*01*, 1*06

Delilah

hot*

1*07

Delilah (Eller)

1*05

Jessie I.

1*07

Doctor

1*01*

John 78, 81*,

185, 281*, 371*, 392

Dora

80

1*01,

1*02, 1*03, 1*01*, 1*05

Edward

81

John Jr*

1*02

Edward A.

81

John Franklin

80

Edward Eller

289

John H.

86

Elender

376

John Reeves

80

Eli 78,

127, hO 2,

1*05

John T.

1*07

Ellhu A.

82

Joseph

393 , 391*, 1*01, 1*05

Elisa

1*05

Joseph W.

80

Elisabeth 375,

1*05, 1*06,

1*07

Judith

289

Elisabeth (Llpe)

1*07

Julia

1*06

Elisabeth Rebecca

281*,

285

Kirby S.

1*05

Ella

8h,

371*

Lacie

377

Eller

86

Larkin 178, 1*01,

1*02, 1*01*, 1*05, 1*07

Eimett

82

Laura

82

Enoch

1*01,

1*07

Laura (Leora) B.

80

Evallne

1*05

Lavicy

1*07

McNiel, Family

392 to

1*07

Leander

376, 1*05

Fanry 75, 86, 177,

180, 183,

366

Lee

81*. 371*

1*02,

1*01*

Levisa (Triplett)

1*07

Fanry (Cleveland)

1*03

Lillie

1*05

Fanny (Eller)

1*05

Liszle Rebecca

81

Flora Della

00

Louisa

1*05, 1*06, 1*07

Floyd

86

Louise

1*05

Frances

81

Lowrie

86

Frances Emeline

82

Lutita

81*, 371*

Frank

81,

288

Margaret

371*

Franklin

79,

1*05

Martha

1*07

George 357, 390, 399,

1*01, 1*02,

1*03

Martha A. (Barlow) 1*06

1*01*,

1*07

Martha Charlotte

1*06

George, Elder

392, 393,

396

Mary 82, 375,

1*03, 1*01*, 1*05, 1*07

George B.

1*06

Mary (Dancy)

1*06

Hr 91*1, Ha ry B.

Hary I.

Hary (Polly)

Hary (ShtptaH) 127 , 370,

Haiti*

NmU

HI 1 too 393,

Mil too kf. 394, 401,

HI run

tency 79, 02, 409,

■. C.

Haney Carolina
kner P.
kner 9.

teal

tellla

tell la 0 laneh
tellla (Parvaaon)

■Ul

Olacy

Ollaar 127, 393, 402,

PlrlUr

Patrleia

kndllrr

Tatar 79, *4.

tetar tea rx»a
tetar Tteman

Hiliau Qa liter
telly

telly (tfilroaoo)

tec ha 1
Pacha l A.
tec ha 1 (Kllar)

401.
JW.
M. *4.

U7, 370, 402, 404,

14

hofar ail ar
teaa T.
tel*

Sarah

Sarah Arm

•l.

Sarah Jmo
91 liana

Saffrona (
T. Irvin#

392. 400, 401, 403.

404.

Tipton
Tori lte

Wllay 02.

Ml lay tall

Willard

WlUlan 02. 04. 127, >74.

402, 403, 404, 406,

X!

406
79

109

404

06

407
401
406

406

407
371

02

407

00

404

406

406

409

402

127

409

407

209

407

7*0

00

00

00

402

404

409

01

404

409

7«0

406

00

406
376
376

407

406

407
379
793
404
407
279
279
409
404

02

02

401

407

HcWlal, Willi an te##l*
WiUtaa S.
lab

He Tic Aar, Ho Ilia

Waff, Chrlctlaa
Bffla Hay
John A.

tell. John
Hobart
wi Ilian

Haafla, I^ylmrch
teal, tfllllm

tealy, U*l

teff, !aa C.

.'•Ml

ly of

invla 9.

_

Mania
Hary Uty
teonl B.
tela P.
tehar, teaU
telaan, tea* Hater
A rite r

Carl B., fanily af
Calterlna ( Joteaan)

CUfnea, fanlly af

tffla Wmm
■ Uaateth H. J.

m Jamb
Jam (Taylor)
John wi Ilian
Joacph Aaron
ter#* rat Ann
Hartte B.
teU Chriatlan
TV*aa B.

Tteu J.

Wiy. terlln C,
teby Clarlca

teynan, A*n*a L. (Tantey)
J. W., fanlly af
■1*11. af I ho nlm ho* to#

79. 01,

X07.

69,

m«*3l§gSSS&S&§SSB36g5mesesesseeeft*ScSt3CBBsees 55*2

no

INDEX

Nichols, Abraham E.

128

Oschslein, Christina

70

James

132

Johanes

70

Nielson, Agnes (VanNoy)

389

Osmond, Agnes L. (VanNoy)

386

Calvert VanNoy

389

Clara G.

103

Evelyn

389

George

103

Grandon VanNoy

389

Rulond, family of

386

Martinus, family of

388, 389

Osterheld, Marie F. E.

3U0

Myrtle

389

Overdorft, Ann

55

Noff singer, Susannah

70

George

55

Nolton, Elizabeth

388

Mary

55

North, Alexander

1*2

Overly, Henry, family of

378

James

51, 52

Owen (Ctaen) Betty

150

bicinda

39

Mr.

98,

150

Mary

51

Nettle

150

Mary Lucinda 37,

<1, 52

Owens, Delight L.

228

Matilda

1*2

Della Faye

335

Samel

39

Fanry'

357

Thomas

1*2

Harry P.

227

Northcraft, Edward

295, 297

John

357

Elisabeth Mrs.

295 , 297

Richard R.

228

Northrop, Elisabeth Jane

208

Robert R.

295

Novlre, Lillian

391

Owlngs (Owens), David

295

Nowlin, Allan

28

James

295

John

295

Oaks, Donna Jane

331*

lydla (Piles)

295

Laurence Roger

331*

Margaret (Clerk)

295

Patricia Rae

331*

Owen

295

Susan Lynn

331*

Rachel (Harper)

295

William S.

331*

Rachel (Hook)

295

Oden, W. H.

63

Robert

295,

307

Oehler, Hans George

6

Thomas

295

Olllver, John

21*

Olphln, Ida

380

Packer, Delbert M., family of

382,

383

Olsen, Billie V.

389

Esma C.

108

Bonnie Lee

390

Mabel R. (Walker)

382

Carlisle E.

389

Padgett, Susan S. Mrs.

352

Charles Ray

390

Palmer, Ann E.

102

Craig

390

Ann (Hodkinson)

102

David K.

390

Isaac

102

Fred W., family of

381

Joe

182

James

390

Journal

102

Jams Gray

390

Ralph

118

Jamie

390

Parker, Amelia A.

351*

Jo Ann

390

Charles

59

John K. Madsen

389

Elinors

60

Joseph, family of

389, 390

James B.

59

Joseph Brent

390

John C.

60

Joseph H., family of

390

La vin la

60

Michael 0.

390

Marissa

60

No rely n

390

Parkinson, E. S., family of

381

Orson H., family of

390

Parks, Julia

101*

William C.

389

Mr.

1*07

Zelnora V.

367

Parlier, Geo. S.

287

Osborne, Clinton, family of

377

Parnell, Catherine

181*

Osborne, Sarah

132

Isaac

311

S71

Pinall, lUiy J«m

77

Ffoata (Fan to). La

Htkm, Calvin t.

F17

Ftel*a, Ata^all

J«R>I %»T.

WOO,

W01,

Alnona

Fana

17)

Alloa C.

(Mil

lfl.

*1

A lira Rory

Puili, terry t^ftr

TTO,

5)5

Ancll

%W7 F,

J*

A rite r 0.

Rary (Ho A )

))0

hartamlr.

Sarah (teoit )

»*.

)*

hnjkhl" ••

Fata, Farnl F.

hfl

haoala

Fat ton, Carolina

*o

Steals

■ail

JO.

*0

Donald 0.

Fob**. hall la

EUa

Faul , Fohr I.

75)

Fom (ReCall)

■U

Fit

Jonala U

Horca, U«y 0.

195

•a a • la

Harooll, Davii

O

Fate

Million

W06

Fool ah

Nek, Maltarl

ltW

U 0.

tau V.

FQ

La la

l»e 7 Fa»

F*

Lola Ran

Sarah

F*

lata

Million D.

Lc la (tala) T.

MaraUa, Fail/a F.

**

■ante

N*4, Alloa

197

Rartte Fay

tool, tertanla

uo.

in.

U)

InlM

110

Rary Loo

teary (Nrob.ll)

110

■HIM

Fbarflny. Mall

m

hoynpnd

Nnrlaar. 3^

F*t

nth

U 11 lan !.

F*J

Milter

tonrtlnftaa, BlliateUt

TO

miter J,

*Ury

79,

TO.

119

F*llnteli*lo Aooor

■ary Anna

lit

tel Iliya, A<t rta-r.

■lUlaa H, 77

• 79,

TO.

n

C. ft.

Hi

1—1 So

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in

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m

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Ftoote

in

Ficteii, trillion F

NrtU. All ea

TH

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Nrtano , hartara

71.

TO

Foaab

Nun, tartar* L.

709

Fate A.

haul

9

l#*Uo

Xaaac ft.

9

ZalU

;«*• r.

709

FiffMn, ToatA

Laura 1 Lao

709

LoclivU

■arc la L.

709

tec ha 1 (Ml loon)

tfontfaM F.

9

FitytKl. Auaoall

Ntorooo, hhrl an, fan!

1 7 •*

TO}

Fite, ter’ -ten

Bthal (halter)

9)

llUoteth

tflwt, family of

m

niteaUA, Uriah

FfoM. Uma Faflo

m

Fiya CM. RaryU

terharl A.

m

nova, RlUml

no, ibi, m.

lit, if?, 111.

m.

UUi

T.

79,

U\

U. 1*. If

779

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L72

INDEX

Pocheco, Resells 390

Poe, Samuel 316

Pond, Abagail 378

Poplin, Lena 376

Porter, Samuel E., family of 379

Potomac Hills Plantation 300

Powell, Isaac b5

Maude 2b9

Nancy 356

Nathaniel 396

Prescott, John W. 107

Presnell, Mercy (Massle) 163

Price, Lawrence 382

Pringle, James N« 209

Nelson Q. 209

Peter M. 209

high, Anna 101

Daniel 101

Martha (Harris) 101

Mary 102

hirry, Jean Pierre 352

Purrysburg, S. C. 352

Putney, Katherine (Harris) 225

Martha Kay 225

Robert 225

Shirley Ann 225

William Harris 225

William Walter 225

Du alee rs 10

Quinn, James B, 113

Mary Alice 113

Radsplnner, Robert S, 281

Ralmer, Balsar 28

Ramey, Elisabeth 367

James 367

James W, 367

Randall, Charles S. 1*6

Flora Nina 262

Rankin, Elwood H. 233

Rasmussln, Julia 108

Ratcliff, Belle 225

Mo 111 e (Cook) 225

William T. 225

Rawlins, Charles R. , family of 391

Ray, Elisabeth 351, 358, 359

Frances 0„ Mrs. 231

Jesse 18

Joseph 306, 308

Lucinda 169

Martha 169

Thomas 169

Rearls , Robert 377

Reb, Caspar 12

Reb, Elizabeth

15

Heinrich

15

Reddick, Charles

bl

Jonathan (Johnson)

b2

Joshua

39

Lucinda

37,

bO

Margaret

39

William

39

Redmond, Nancy

322

Reed, Dorothy

275

Joseph R.

lb9

Reedy, Catherine

158

Reeves, Polly

37b

Regulators 353, 396,

Loo,

b03

Rench, Molly

51

Rendezvous Mt., N. C.

188

Reutenbach, Frederick

15

Reynolds, Sally

82

Rice, Benjamin

30L,

305

Purnell (Hook)

30b,

305

Richards, Qeorge W.

332

Pearl

332

Richardson, Hers he 1 P.

282

Vera

63

Rick, Nellie

213

Ridgeway, Job

318

Rlggin, Elva

387

Riggs, Agnes Louisa

368

Byron

368

Elbrldge M.

368

Elisabeth

367

Iona Pearl

368

John A.

368

Riley, Ensa

85

James

2b,

33

Rlnard, Catherine

158

Qeorge

158

Rlnecoree, Paul

305

Rinehart, Barnett, family of

317

Ritter, Michael

2b,

33

Robbins, Andrew

b3

Lore Clark

116

Roberts, Florence E. (VanNoy)

386

Joseph F., family of

386

Robertson, James

bOO

Martha

b06

Mary

b06

Robinson, Leah Lois

lib

Robison, Laura Ray

391

Linda Kgjr

391

Ray S,, family of

391

Thomas J.

391

Rock Creek Parleh

29b

Rockwell, Idylmerch

332

Rogers, Claude C.

217

lUritm him
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133
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klUr, knlil

wu, mi Ur

tori—, toMA (ton*)
Mm

to iter, InriRU

BUm

lUllteU

tolly

.’o— (Jartl

205

335

3t6

212
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2®3
3t7, k03
8?
8?
201
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326
30k
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t U 12
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®. ®
301
tl, tf
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t?
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22?

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l?t

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315

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14)
150
Ito. 150
L.R. 150
14)

Ii7lj

Sexton, M.

150

Sleight, Steven R.

381a

Shade, Philip

96

William F., family of

381a

Shaffer, Roehn

388

Zllpha M,

381a

Shallows Ford

395

Slifer, John

70

Sharp, Caleb

117

Small, Betty J.

213

Helen Mary

1*7

Morris

213

Lulu S.

230

Smart, Keith L.

391

Mary

117

Smeltser, Hannah Marla

55

Mary A.

117

Smith, Abraham

152

Shaw, Harlan

2!a8

Alexander 28,

73,

130

Leri E.

1*8

Anthony

321

Shear, Abraham

28

Arthur J.

152

Christian

28

Benjamin McNiel

200

Sheen (Shene), William

123

Chlleab

31*3

Sheets, Martin

17

Chileab Jr.

31*3

Sheldon, Edith

261a

Christopher A.

199

Shelly, Donald M.

33 8

Clara V.

152

Shepard, Della

390

Clement, family of

382

Golda A.

390

Cyrus

lal

Julius Dee R., family of

390,

391

Dawid

28,

162

Linda Ann

391

Frances J.

382

Martha L. (VanNoy)

3O0

Frances (VanNoy)

382

Robert, family of

266

Frank S.

199

Thelma

300

George M.

152

Wilma D. (Eller)

266

Hannah

98

Shepherd, Abraham

356

Henry A.

151

John 353, 3 *>6, 357,

*1,

370

Hiram

28

Mary 77, 79,

177,

laOta

Hyrua

152

Mary Mrs.

359,

370

John 98, 11*8, 119,

152,

153

Phebe

357,

361

Joseph

152.

367

Sally

180

Juliana

200

Susanna

353,

356

Leora

382

Sherburne, E. J.

203,

20ta

Leri

31*3

She me r, Shirley

63

Leri Jr.

31*3

Shickley, Walden

1*7

Lewis 0,

1*1*

Shoemaker, Donald

20ta

Lorraine

382

Shreve, Elisabeth Haney

1*30

Lucy

57

Shakell, Martin

22,

23

Luella Frances

83,

31*3

Shaman, Elisabeth

322

Lydia

151

Lydia

322

Lydia (Wlllets)

321

Shumate, Fred

183

Margery

321

S. R.

375

Mary 98, 11*9,

321,

367

Sibley, Beth

278

Massie (Koons)

98

Slceloff, Alexander

66

Patience

98,

11*9

Elisa (Wyer)

66

Pmil McNiel

199

Elisabeth

65.

66

Phlneas

31*3

Joeeph B.

67

Rebecca Bird

199

Mary

66

Rhoda Ann

152

Sisnons, Harlan

101

Robert A.

112

Simms, Drury

395

Sabina Eeelin

112

Isaac 119,

119,

1 22

Sanuel Carlos

152

Matthew

122

Sasaoel, Lieut.

31*3,

31*1*

Slmoeon, John 295,

306,

308

Stephen

51

Sarah

296,

308

Susan

1*29

Velma

120

Sylranus

321

675

l

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tf&lUaa *1

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n\ti*i

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Omory ft.

HtfrvH, Ut
MucUr, Carl D.

Ill

61

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>06
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111
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10)
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>60
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61
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m

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Sutcm, ibtAMir A.
lltuMir ft.

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ft.

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N|0 6U
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111

100

107. 106. 109
190
199

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109
190
107, 110
139
}«
106

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107, 100, 109
190

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66

100

100, 106
m

175

in

69

09

117

60

66

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M6

U*o* ft.

N4

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M4

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lit

C6 *rl*o ft.

119

ft»l*»tc Mi

119

ii Ur

119

16

»*ra4U*. 9roomr C.

61

131

tuUr. lorn

100

C or*

119

Mm

100

lUuMt^

m

Mi

i0>

JoompO

100

kUla

100

QUi*

101

Suit, lM7

>60

iuiu, :«fwiu t.

at.

110

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119

M| 1 11 Ml ft.

119

•u*nM, IlMtal 6*.

>96

9(mU, Ir» ft., f«ul| «f

1«

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65

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10.

Ill

lOllM <« ft.

n0.

in

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110

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m

umm iMiftm

96.

95

UM «4rfiraU

9>»

06

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91

Mr V.

111

klUMir

90,

06

Urun

90.

91,

96

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111

kUirt* 10.

71*

91.

95

67.

101.

iu.

117

C«U»rtfl> (11 Ur >

ti*

96.

169

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UO

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91.

96

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•0.

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66.

100

ClMMlM

no

CUM

no

Gml C.

in

k«H

100

Uv|4 IUm

U)

k«t4 kUM

116

INDEI

iker, Dolly

120

Stoker, 0.

150

Elizabeth 88,

90,

91,

92,

93

Orson Hyde

122

9U,

95,

96,

101

Parley P.

115

Elizabeth Jane

115

Pearl J.

120

Eller

20,

31,

122

Peter

122

Elliot

120

Rebecca

20, 116

Evelyn

120

Robert L.

121

Franklin

100

Sarah

101

Gabriel McNeil

116

Sarah Ann

100

Georg

90,

93

Sophronle 0.

115

George

88,

89,

9U,

95

Susannah

95

George C,

120

Vernon

121

George W.

1 22

aayne

120

Harry I.

121

William

101

Helen E.

121

Willi an A.

121

Hiraa

100,

H9,

120

William Eller

115

Jacob

9U,

118,

119

William M.

116

Jaws

96

Zlbiah

100

Jared 3.

116

Zlblah Meriba

115

Joh. Michael

91,

93

Stolte, Gustave

230

Johanna M.

89,

91*

Stone, Elizabeth (Eller)

201

Johannes

90,

91.

93,

9l*

Troy Hamilton

201

John

88,

100,

119

Whit R.

201

John A .

116

Stout, Jonathan

85

John Randolph

115

Strawberry Baptist Association

396

John W.

115

Sturgill, Grace

275

Joseph

119

Sturts, Alma

228

Joseph Toahll

116

Suddworth, Lenura

351*

Julia

122

Sullivan, Nancy

132

Katherine K*

115

Surry Baptist Association

397

King E.

122

Sutphln, Gladys

62

Lauina

123

Swainson, Frances J. (Smith)

382

Lorraine

120

George R.

382

Lucretia

123

Swanson, Beatrice (Buxton)

251*

Magdalena

92

Frederick

251*

Margaret

95,

1 22

Rosalie

251*

Margaret C.

123

Swlnk, Ann Mariah

351*

Marianna

91

Marie

96

Tappendorf, Williaa A. Jr*

21*3

Marie Barbara

88,

89,

90,

93

Taylor, Charles

326

Marie

9*i,

95

Cora

181

Marie Catherine

92.

93.

91*

Frances D*

11*7

Marie Sal caw

91,

93.

91*

James H.

1*01*

Martha R.

116

Jane

226

Mary

95,

96

John

316

Mary Elizabeth

123

Solomon

316

Mary (Polly)

97

Sue

362

Michael 18,

20,

21,

25,

26

Teague, Martha

362

?e,

29,

72,

88 to 96

Tesrplin, Henry

1*8

101,

115.

116,

117,

130

Tench, Thomas

291

11*9,

162,

172

Tharp, Charlotte

322

Michael E.

123

Thasnburgh, Em

11*8

Michael Janes

116

Thomas, Stella

229

Michael Jr.

91*,

96

Thompson, Andrew

106

Nancy

101,

119

David H.

21*5

ftTT

nwe, (***)

bn>i1 0. , fall; of
Um i

UUarlM K.

ft. ft.

rhcmoc* , im (ftetl)

>orp I,

IAIU«

T>.r%* h» r ' • CVwi . late
Tltetej.

ClMrUi

Xft

)A

176

&5

70ft

IN

10ft

105

105

l*

m, m
m, m
m, w, m
w
m. w

f«Jo m. *>•

m

m

Mft

7ft

7ft. Ift7

Sft

CU1M C. 75, 7ft, IS), 1**
D*r|« B, 47. 167

tenry 7. 7ft, 1ft?

lUrporoi (*«*7> AT

tery J. H. 1*7, 75)

Ttewote 7ft?

fttetery T. 7ft, 1*7

Tiny, Jaw Ift

m»«, fttofftM )«

Twte. CUtmm 0., ftelly of 7*0

A1U 9l»f*r* 7*0

Twite. tery 4mi 770

terrUi (Nwiof)
Trwcy, 4rU*r »,

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terrUll (telll*)
;wm»

feilU

aii««

ft* *•» teo.

teort ft.

Trooor, niU«

100

1ft

yn

ui

n

uo

1)0

uo

77

T?

77. JU

AT

1*7

n

n

n

n

n

70S

Uf

Trw*t , He ter4

TrlfloU,

rn d. t., r

TtomU, teU

te**U QUr

:«m*i c,

Fro«l*r

UrtM

tewite ten
teU* Urvvu
■ftr'-n* tet in*
W<7 (liter)
v«u C*r»U»
Vmtm (teCwll)
teiif, terry 3.

7 rote, terror. i
Tlfftft. Oftft*

TV«ter, CterU*

jftft

766

M

If of )66

Aft

70t

tu

10), 70S, 716
70ft, 710, 711
70ft, ITS
70), 70S, 71*
71*

70V, 700, II*
70ft
110
710

70S

70ft

70V, 70S, 71*
Wf

m

IftT

DO

1ST

113

i*

ui

Vltery, teroft
ft*nnlt Sfttewl

*1

A

IS

777

4+»U (liter)
ift*li» (miter)

41 ten

4tey CotmU*
41^ (liter)

4lf r*4

te* 11* 46ilt*
tei rite

inter*** «U

tete. Af, A>.

in'roo U»l.

It)

30, m

)A
K). m
si, •), uo. m

in

m

)Ti

ai

m
a, m

in

)A. m. )A

Aft

m
m, m
si, m, a), m

)Q. )*), )« w )W
Ai, )A, 600, 60ft
Aft, Y9
m, lift

1*78

INDEX

may, Andrew Jr.

350,

360

Vannoy Enoch 82,

357,

363,

361*,

1*07

Andrew Updike

351

Enoch Noah

363

Andrew Walter

351

Esther

373

Ann

360

Ethel

366

Ann Karl on

351*

Ettie (Ella)

375

Ann Whittington

363

Ettie (Kilby)

365

Annie

363,

376

Evelyn Elltabeth

373

Bathemia

371

Fanny

366

Benedict A.

377

Florence (Maxwell)

376

3enjamin F.

371*

Frances Susannah

371*

Cant a

357

Francis 31*9, 350,

352,

353,

356,

358

Carl Johnson

377

361, 363,

367,

370,

371,

371*

Caroline

351a,

371

376

Caroline (Walters)

363

Frank

377

Catherine 351*

355, 361*,

375

Franklin

356

Catherine (Gamblll)

381

Franky Matilda

79,

85,

371*.

375

Cecil

376

Fred

365

Charles

36?

Frederick

31*9

Charles A,

373

Oalther

363

Charity

371*

Gaither H,

363

Chester A,

N*,

373

George Everett

376

Clyde Smith

377

George W.

83,

81*,

373,

371*

Columbus

361

Gwyn

365

Cornelia (Bumgarner)

376

Hannah

31*9,

351*,

355

Cornelius

31*9,

350

Hannibal Roscoe

376

Dale Leonard

373

Harley Abraham

81*.

373

Daniel

351*

Harvey

351*

Doane

377

Helen Adeline

373

Dora

375

Helen (Whittington)

377

Dora E.

365

Hendrick

31*9

Dorothy Scott

377

Henrietta

363

Edgar Lewis

182,

365

Henry

360

Edgar Hillard

373

Henry Neil

181,

362,

361*

Eleanor

377

Hester

377

Ella

371, 371* ,

375

Ida (Whittington)

363

Ellen

363, 371*,

376

Ina

365

Elite C.

376

Inet

377

Elite R.

376

lone

371

Elltabeth 350,

357, 360,

362

Isaac R.

363

Elisabeth (Betty)

377

Israel Hunt

351

Elisabeth C.

376

James 13?, 180,

182,

357,

361,

363

Elltabeth (Fairchild)

371

361*,

371,

371*,

375,

376

Elltabeth (Kilby)

367

James Attiaon

371

Elltabeth (Little)

365

James F.

365

Elisabeth (HcNlel)

1*07

James H.

361*

Elltabeth (Ray) 77,

137, 138,

351*

Jaws L.

363

358, 359,

370, 1*05,

1*13

James LeRoy

363

Elltabeth (St Clear)

3<a*

James N.

376

Elvln Nelson

373

James Nathaniel

371

Elvira

363

James Newton

376

Elyan Ross

355

James Rev.

358,

393

Elsa F.

85,

371*

Jane

350,

360,

363

Emily Amanda

3*2*

Jane (Colvard)

375

Emily (Whittington)

361*

Jane (McKlchael)

359,

360

Emma M. (Held)

373

Jennie

363

470

nay, Jooslo 77,

7*.

«).

•5,

ue to

nrwy. Uollo f. (3—iA)

37)

U7.

1*5,

IM.

358 to )60

K—lo L.

IBI,

365

36).

)70.

371.

374 to )76

IUL C.

36)

wa.

4io.

kl3

(Uwrvt

376

Jmh t— ol—

377.

37k

•terftnl

360

J«*m tlisrt

377

— r*lo Ooo)

377

Jnm — r» on

377

—ri—

357.

360

.•IM tfhttfUld

371

— rt— (K—olor)

371,

376

Jlnrjr

360

Kory 3 50. >56, )5T.

361.

367.

371

Jool

3^,

J*.

41).

370

37<. )77,

407

Mm 71, 70,

•3.

•5.

1)7

X*i7 U flk. 360,

363.

371.

)1k

1M. *6.

*6.

>51.

3<7.

35)

Kory lor Wy

36)

)56. )«to 361.307.

370.

371

Kory ffcroon'

365

37k.

376.

ki)

Kory Coro 11— 164.

1M.

166.

356

Jo— 1.

36)

375.

kio.

kl).

415

Ja— Frwcli

357

6—7 C. )51,

365.

376,

377

ion® 1.

361.

370

Kory tlolo

37)

Join laolltM

)a

Kory liMl

376

Join — —e-roy

k. m.

37k.

MX

Kory i—loo

a.

37)

Mm R.

357

Kory Jmm

364

Join Tf mat

)7?

Kory (lll*y>

IM.

413

Mm, —

40J

Kory (MKltUoftool

363.

365

JoB» — airy

351

Kory (*•— 0— r4\

370

Jam, >in of

3k6

KoUUo (Ti Mo)

371

Jeon* )50,

360,

361.

371.

377

Kottlo Vy

)77

Jo— in Co— mi

377

Itooto U (Rite— 111

37)

Joiio

•*.

36<,

)7k

—Ml— U

350

Jollo A.

371

RUllo (— lllo)

353

Jvllot UlM

351

KdiL — otor

377

Uuwrlio

3a.

>*.

3a

Rl— to

366

lot— rim irr Toi*o

371

Kiri—

36)

«FU

m

ei—rt

371

UcU (KrR.l)

37?

— nry

36)

Lorry

36)

KrrtL

363

Loot

376

—rtlo UIm

36)

to Mo <C— rcM

377

0. C. (Rr—ol)

371

Loao (01111—)

377

— — y

357.

361

U— (to yllr)

376

— y (tltor)

36)

U—ro (SfVoortli

i)

»a

lorry ( — lion)

36)

U-y

376

— ml*

375

Loot to (fMUlrol

316

— l— AUl Ik. 77,

76,

•3.

•5

L»ur CUwlond

>k.

)1k

Ut. 1)7,

357.

>a

LUor

36)

)« to 360, 363.

367.

370

Loti

365

371. 31k.

m.

400.

410

Uvio r.

16 K

361.

364

417.

413

UAH!

357

— 11

160.

364

la lit o

36)

tiro (T*Ur)

365

unto b.

36)

tool

353

u«n

37?

— MM K.

357

Uoolo —y

36)

Oro Ilftra

161.

365

UU

404

OrloM— 0.

60

Dro (Kollo)

377

Qooor — rUo

a.

37)

LoIm

•5.

3T1,

kov

F««y

36)

LoIn

365,

m

— orl

16!

UIm (Oor— 1%)

364

— or 1 ( *m ry )

36)

U80

INDEX

nnoy , Pearl Thelma

36k

Vannoy, William Kilby

371

Pell

363

William Porter

8k, 373

Peter

3k8, 350, 361

William Raynor

377

Phebe

181, 357, 361

Zerish

350

Philander H.

351

VanNoy, Abagail (Pond)

378

Polly (Kilby)

klO, kl3

Abraham

378

Preston

37, 37k, 375

Abraham Edwin

367

Rachel

3k6, 353

Abraham LaGrant

387

Rebecca 351, 353,

31, 356 , 357

Abraham W.

369

371

Ada

379

Rebecca (McNiel)

370, k02, k05

Ada (Day)

381

Robert

371, 37k, 377

Adelaide (Lewis)

380

Robert Addison

83, 373

Adelaide (Mace)

378

Robert Glen

376

Agnes

388

Robert Glynn

37k

Agnes (Blrrel)

368, 378, 38k

Roby

365

Agnes La Verna

386

Rose Virginia

351

Alice Rebecca

382

Richard LeRoy

363, 376

Amelia

38k

Richard Newton

377

Amelia May

380

Richmond

376

Andrew Jackson

368

Ruda Hannibal

83, 373

Andrew Ray

369

Ru^y H.

363

Anna

368

Sal lie Clare land

kl2

Anne Mary

389

Sallie (Reeres)

37k

Barbara

387

Sallie V.

361, 362, 365

Beatrice Rose

379

Sarah 350, 31, 357 to 361, 36k , 371

Beatrice (Williams)

383

37k, kl3

Bertha Kathleen

383

Sarah (Baldoser)

373

Bertha Tyre aha

386

Sarah (Carolina)

8k, 128, 37k

Betty Jean

388

Sarah ( Clare land)

358, 359

Betty Mae

387

Sarah (Hickerson)

31

Beulah

387

Sarah Jana

36k, 370

Bond Ralph

380

Sue

365, 376

Carol Jean

387

Susan 82, 35k,

36k, 377, kOk

Caroline P.

38k, 388

Susannah 353 , 351,

355, 357, 360

Catherine (Hendricks)

368

363, kl2

Catherine Laeema

379

Susannah (Anderson)

352, 353

Catherine R.

369

9usannah (Shepherd)

353, 356

Charlotte

385

Tam

375

Christina (Hookum)

387

Tilda

k02

Clarence Kilby

387

Thomas

355, 371, 37k

Clarence Ray

378

Vernon P.

37k

Colleen Coral

390

Victoria L.

83, 372

Cora

368

Viola (Hinton)

365

Dean T.

387

Virgie (Money)

377

Delano

390

Virginia Dare

377

Delpha P.

387

W. W. Major

31

Donald

381

Walter M.

363

Donald Glen

380

Washington

31

Donna Rae

387

Wiley

363, 371, k02

Drusllla Dorris

379

Wiley C.

363

Edward

368

Wiley J.

365

Edward M.

369

William 31, 361,

363, 371, k02

Elaine

381

William Andrew

377

Elisabeth

369

William Clifford

365

Elisabeth (Ramey)

367

TarJfcry , llluteti) T 1UU
EltU (fefaa)
tiv» (Coy)

NllliMl

!»• B. (ftaDeoc*)

vallm

»• Bit

Jamt *lno

7*7

7*0

7*7

y*

too

77*

7*0

A*

7*7

>00

7*0

JfB

7*0

TOO

rnMN Mil* >67

framl* 77. TO, §>, •«, L?«

UT, 1**. 77*

3iorf« loo
teorf* lovto
k«ni R.

OaraU ft.
jartrate ( Boolof )
OUa CUniM

Hi Ur. (SWort)

H-rt-rl A.

Hoi tor

1 4a

XOa (QlffcU)

I— (RaQamn)
Xaaac SRaaa

too f. (AufitU)

Jama A jHaraan
to • C.

Jmn UmarH
to BaltaMUl
Juai *aar
Jm

Jam (lUMfiri)

Jam (Ha«)

Jaa* llnoouia)
Ja MU JoaayAl
Jarrnla*

J«Rr* Col rtn
JaHa R.

Jo*n Maaf la 14

7*0
7*0
7*0
TOO
7*7
7*7
7*7
7*0
77B
7*7
7*0
7*0
77k
7*1
7*
70*
7*0
7*0
7*7
7*0
70*
70*
>0*
7*7
7*0
>0*. >B0
7*7
7*1
70*
>00
7*7
7*7
70*

707. 77*. 7*5
>0*
TOO
7*0

Vanfcy. John fclcfcard

John Tall
Joan 4.

Joloa

• o Una

lalDarLna
I atm rim ir»i
Aatharlm ( AaaUy >
I atnarlna AUlm
tatmrlm HiUUa
UuUm U
Lrtmy B.

Uto 0.

U%ta T.

Uoon (M«ra«>

Ua

to v.

Uaara A.

Ua Uwla
loUta
UaU *.

LUyl A am
Uta
Ura
Urn

to ft.

Uooll

Uaall CRarUt
UallU C.
to* C.

Raryaml
Harraroi Am
Rar*arat (AO#)
Rartarol T.
Itarvamt (TlmUy)
lUrta hooArta)

Rartm T. (Tall)
Rafj

Rary Am (OUOa)

Rry C. Ramie a )

Rary ft.

Rafy Framao
Rary Lillian
Rary (RHLay)

Rary Rar«arai
Rary (Rdtuml)
RarytalU

7**. 77*.

*1*

707.

700,

SK!!I«lUmi!!Hilall)S!9!l!!l!!lS{3H!iS9S]||!m!S(SHSI

1*82

VanNoy, Melvin Joseph
Mildred Addle
Minnie

Nancy (Stark)

Nathan
Nathan Kilby
Nathaniel
Neita (Lewis)

Nellie Loretta
Nellie Zelnora
Nettie

Nora (Franaen)

Olive
Ora Adell
Ora Elzada
Orville
P amelia
Patricia
Pauline DeLaine
Peter

Peter Franklin
Phillis
Rachel C.

Ralph Lewis
Ralph Marlon
Raymond Demont
Robert

Roberta (Fleming)

Roehn (Shaffer)

Rondo

Resell* (fccheco)

?kith (Gossett)

Ruth Virlene
Samuel Tinsley
Sarah
Sarah A,

Sarah L,

Shirley Carrol
Spencer
Spencer E.

S tec la Pauline
Stephen Spencer
Thaddeus
Thaniel

Thomas Lorenzo
Thomas P.

Venna

Vemessa (Tullia)

Viola
Vlrl Ream
William
William Avon
William Clarence
William Clyde
William Dorris 378

VanNoy, William Ernest

380

William Humphrey

389

William James

387

William La Re 11

387

William Nathan

369

William Ray

390

William Thomas 368, 369,

378,

381*

388,

3*0

Zalie Adeline

379

Zelnora

378,

389

Van Oy, Jan

31*6

Vaughn, Everett Sidney

229

Scott Thomas

229

Vemooy, 3enjamin W,

31*7

Benjamin

31*8

Elizabeth

31*8

John

31*8

Joseph

31*7

Lena

31*8

Nicholas

31*8

Rachel

31*8

Sarah

31*8

Usselje

31*8

Vemoy, Cornells C,

31*7

Vicors, Edith

391

Virginia Baptist Association

396

Waddell, Fred L.

272

Waldburger, Franz X.

31*0

Rose Belle

31*0

Theresa (Kampe)

31*0

Waldron, Charlotte Lv

111

Luclle (Merrill)

111

William Eustace

111

Walgreen, Julia

382

Walker, Albert E.

382

Alice (VanNoy

382

Drusilla (VanNoy)

379

Earl Van, family of

383

Edith

383

Edna Eckler

326

Ethel

383

Joseph H., family of

379

Lin villa H.

383

Mabel Rebecca

382

Millie

383

Milton

383

Nora M.

383

Pearl

383

Thomas E., family of

382,

383

William A.

382

Walters, Caroline

363

Waroler, Christina

100

Wans lee, Mary Ella

113

Nathan Terry

113

Ruth (Moore)

113

INDEX
380

380
368
368
367, 368
388

367, 368, 369, 378, 380

380

380

386
391
381*
368
378

387
369
369

387

388

79, 281*, 288
3l*8
380
368
380
380
387

367

387

388

368
390
387
387
381*
369
368
369

387
390

388
388
3*0

381
383
386
31*8
380
387
383
387
368
387
378
383

Hear,

110, Ik?

delhar, ►ajmoo4 Alaaantor

Abraha*

10*

Hibnoca

100.

A tae Darld

ui

tobecea Ann

Atm T* ft»

103

Mojtanna Umlaa

i|M< Almia

112

\»0jr

Alfra*

111

ierah

10k.

Ain AUundir

107

Slnan LntvhlatU

Alaata Anralln*

107

Juaan Kaallm

HhUi Jam

107

tfllbant

Anna *<*

Ul

iliUH Janaa

Catharine A lid re

10*

a ill Ian haaeley

Caroline Alrlra

105

ralUr, Diana Jaan

Chariot Delbert

Ilk

toal rSanaa

Cba rUa Mat lay

106

a Ulart T.

China Laulia

110

nalla, tobert

Coraaa

112

avru, ChriaUaa

David

101

laana

«•

Outlay Slnaa

112

John

111 a a toMU

107

Mary (Polly)

tllaa totlaon

111

anal, Url, fanily of

KUtabe th

Ul

lac r c« a.

KUaaUiih (fttoter)

Ul

Harry A.

ftlxer Adol|4»a

Uk

Saraal J., fmllj af

ItArtM

103

talhartna M. (Tantoy)

•nptaali "ay

113

Uvte C,

Frairla %rlaa

l %

baranao. fanily af

Ollbert

10)

toynanl

Harriet Apt

106

9a a a n Catharine

Marrl# AUaanter

10k

Tn

Halta Uallaa

102

aiftonr, bln ft.

Ida UalU

Uk

Jaaaf* ft.

laabelU Jana

uk

abaaUr, Abeelan

J«M»

106

Martha

Jacob 3 tone r

106

Matilda

Jmn

101, Ul

WMtn, A<a M,

Jama Altar!

10V

Mm

Jaai ayron

106

John Ildar

A3,

Jana a lotor!

101, Ul

hUarlra

11.

J am# tfllbnm 101,

102, 10), 1U

Inarm

Jam

105

Into

n.

John Artlaar

Ul

Mhltlager, Alloa

John El lor

105

eWt mra, A am tall

John Qelney

106

MM iter, Calif

Joeeph tjrom

196

Caroline (took)

Lananr# Harold

1U

CkKKlar

Loalaa HahaU

106

tona>«»i T., fanily af

Hoc I llovort.lt

111

Milllliytpa, AUaandar

>62.

Harlan Alelra

113

i Un. too. 1M. 113. 127.

*1.

Harr Alai ra

1 12

herjanlr f,

122.

Mary Catherine

107

Ctorlaa

■an Marla

Ul

Clayton

Homan Jana*

111

Clara land

Or Una

lot

tollla

OrUna Inallm

106

Dora

Polly

Ik?

ftllaa

!5SS*5CSS22S2cSSS8lF5Ss5EE«8S*5SSS5Ss8SacEeeeBSiiEfiESSSr

1*81*

Whittington, Elizabeth
Elvira Nancy
Emily
Fowle
Frank
Gaither
Hamp

Hansford

Helen

I la

James

Jennie

John

John L. , family of

Julia

Laura

Lee (Leander)

Lee, family of
Leonard
Maggie
Mariah E.

Martha
Mary
Mary A.

Mary P.

Monro#

Nena Dell

Nora

Octavia

Oscar

Phineas

Phineas, family of

Roscoe

Sally

Spa inhour

Susanah (Varmoy)

Todd

Thoiaas

Wiley

William R.

Wlckman, Eva lone
Fred La Verne
Janet Kay
Oscar
Raymond P.

Vera Bessie
Wlghtly, John
Wilcoa, Elisabeth V.
Wllcoxon, Mary C,

Polly (Mary)

Wiley, Ida Mae
Wilkinson, Charles
David
John W.

Mary B.

INDEX

180

Wilkinson, Rachel

1*8

181

Will, Nina Lorene

383

180

Wi lists, Hope

321

182

Richard

321

182

Timothy

321

183,

187,

1*09

Williams, Amelia J.

151*

182

Annie 0,

106

183

Burt rice

383

377

David A.

106

182,

183

Frances

22,

17

183

Katie

1*7

183

Lillie

1*9

183

Mary Ann

9?

363,

36*i

Sarah Jean

281

182

Williamson, Asa Aca

1*7

181,

till

Willis, Jimmie Elizabeth

131*

182,

362

Will Jar, Rosina

70

362

Willson, James

350

370

Peter

31*9

181

Wilt, Caroline (Hook)

310

183

John

310

181

Mary L.

310

1 82,

363

Ulmer, John H.

62

362

Winegar, Almira

101

182

George H.

151

183

Henry

151

182

Jane

151

183

John

150

183

Joseph H.

151

182

Massey

151

181,

361a

Rhoda E. (Cummins)

101

361*

Samuel

151

183

Samuel T,

101

183

Sarah

11*9

183

Susan A.

151

362

Wise, Mo Ills C.

1*7

182

Wlthrev, Arthur L,

122

183,

181,

187

William

122

363

Wolford, Florence D.

263

183,

187

0. B.

263

213

Wood, Elisabeth

13

213

Jennie E.

227

211*

Nanny ( Nancy )

37

213

Stephen

398

213,

211*

Thomas

13

213

Woodbury, benjamin H.

326

311

John

326

135

Mary

326

127

Wright, Anna pie

292

1*01*

Clara

181*

21*9

John

292,

396

1*8

Lucy

181*

37,

1*8

M. Eva

278

1*8

Mahlon

181*

1*8

Mary Lamb

181*

4§5

tfrlfht, tfl lUw

194

T*%ln Boptltt loan. >96,

3*?.

3*6

koi.

40)

!Mf»r, Ntrtinl B.

3*

TaUt, ElUoteth (Claw Land)

T«.

§S

PMf

•S

66

Mm

76

Mi

6?

Tmm', (^nu 1., faolljr of

>67

Ora B. ( Taitftojr

307

Tati (Yaaat), lUaotot*

S3

Jmo>

S3

ToUly, Wary

6S.

60

Tool, CirliiMi

476.

476

Toaaca, fwlirtel

76

Jwi 0., faMlly of

776

Tcmftt, AM UmIU (Lpaaolto)

<6

MJaMr.

377

BlU C.

301

UM*

7)6

laiat <Urw

)M

TmM, fwdorleft

35

“HUori J.

714

Mol tor

60

Baftoall, tori. fwlly of

3*0

looac t. ortl

113

JaooO Dartort

11)